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ANNUITIES  TO  THE  BLIND 


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ANNUITIES  TO  THE  BLIND 


BEING  AN  ACCOUNT  OF  CHARITIES  GIVING  RECURRENT 

ASSISTANCE  TO  THE  BLIND  AND  OF  SOME  OTHERS 

WHOSE  GRANTS  ARE  NOT  USUALLY  RENEWED 


BY  THE  LATE 

EDMUND  C.  JOHNSON 
EDITED,   WITH   A   PREFACE,   BY   HIS   SON 

CHAIRMAN  OF    THE  TRUSTEES   OF   THE    '  BLIND  MAN's  FRIEND*    COMMONLY 

CALLED    'day's   CHARITY '    AND   OF   THE   COMMITTEE   OF   THE   SOCIETY  FOR 

GRANTING  ANNUITIES  TO  THE   POOR  ADULT   BLIND 


FOURTH   EDITION.   ENLARGED  AND  CORRECTED  TO   1910 


LONGMANS,    GREEN,    AND    CO. 

39  PATERNOSTER  ROW,  LONDON 
NEW  YORK,  BOMBAY,  AND  CALCUTTA, 

1910  \r  :'••:  i  V  .      '•.•:' 

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This  hook  had  its  origin  in  the  appendices  to 
'  The  Blind  of  London'  reprinted  from  *  The  Times ' 
with  additions.     Mitchell^  i860. 


'  Annuities  to  the  Blind  '  1st  edition,  1876 
„  „  „        2nd  edition,  1886 

3rd  edition,  1895 


TO 

SIR    OWEN    ROBERTS 

MASTER  OF 
THE  WORSHIPFUL  COMPANY   OF  CLOTHWORKERS 

THIS    EDITION    IS    DEDICATED 
JULY  1910 


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CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Editor's  Preface x! 

A  Table  of  Twenty-four  Charities  which  Grant  Amnuitiss,  etc.,  to  the  Blind 

(whose  offices  are  situated  in  London) xlv 

A  Table  of  Forty-nine  Charities  which  Grant  Annuities,  etc.,  to  the  Blind 

(whose  offices  are  not  situated  in  London) xlx 

CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE  IN  ENGLAND  AND  WALES 

PART  I.— LONDON 

Association  for  Promoting  the  General  Welfare  of  the  Blind      ...  3 

Bath  Blind  School  Home  Trust 4 

Blind  Female  Annuity  Society 5 

Blind  Man's  Friend  or  Day's  Charity 7 

Clothworkers'  Company 9 

Cordwainers  Company 14 

Drapers'  Company 17 

Gardner's  Trust  for  the  Blind 18 

Goldsmiths'  Company 21 

Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution 23 

Hon.  Frances  Harley's  Charity  for  Poor  Blind  Persons          ....  26 

Rev.  William  Hetherington's  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind        ....  30 

Howard's  Charity  for  the  Blind,  St.  Marylebone 34 

Humston's  Charity  for  the  Blind,  Aldgate 36 

Indigent  Blind  Visiting   Society 38 

Institution  for  the  Relief  of  the  Indigent  Blind  of  the  Jewish  Persuasion  .  41 

National  Blind  Relief  Society 43 

Painter  Stainers'  Company 45 

Joanna  Rashdale's  Charity  for  Blind  Women  .         .         .         .         .         .49 

Royal  Blind  Pension  Society  of  the  United  Kingdom 50 

School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  London  and  Leatherhead,  Surrey           .         .  55 

Society  for  Granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind        ....  57 

SoBiERs  Town  Blind  Aid  Society 60 

South  Lovdou  Association  for  Assisting  the  Blind 6z 


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PART  II.— PROVINCIAL 

Berkshire —  pack 

Reading  Blind  Aid  Societv 65 

Wokingham  Municipal  Charities 67 

Cornwall — Dowager  Lady  Robinson's  Fund  for  the  Blind,  Penzance      .         .  68 

Cumberland — Hudson's  Charity,  Cockermouth 69 

Devonshire — 

West  of  England  Institution  for  the  Instruction  and  Employment  of  the 

Blind  from  the  Counties  of  Cornwall,  Devon,  Dorset,  and  Somerset    .  70 

Hazelwood  Trust 71 

Essex — Chigwell  United  Charities 72 

Gloucestershire — 

Alderman  John  Merlott's  Charity  to  the  Blind,  Bristol  ....  73 

School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind 74 

John  Wintle's  Charity,  Gloucester             75 

Hampshire — Portsmouth  Municipal  Charities 76 

Hertfordshire — Benjamin  Collett's  Charity,  Hemel  Hempstead       .         .         .  Tj 

Kent — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denward's  Charity  to  the  Blind  of  Kent     ...  78 

Lancashire — 

Liverpool  Workshops  and  Home  Teaching  Society  for  the  Outdoor  Blind  79 

Henshaw's  Blind  Asylum,  Manchester         .......  81 

Rochdale  and  District  Society  for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind  .  83 

rossendale  society  for  visiting  and  instructing  the  blind      ...  84 

Leicestershire — ^Miss  Sarah  Barlow's  Charity  for  Blind  Women,  Leicester  .  85 

Northamptonshire — 

George  Phillips'  Charity,  Northampton 86 

Clifton's  Charity,  Oundle 88 

Oxfordshire — 

Hknley-on-Thames  Municipal  Charities go 

Oxford  Municipal  Charities         .........  91 

Staffordshire — ^Alice  Fenton's  Charity             93 

Suffolk — Ipswich  and  Suffolk  Institution  for  Providing    Relief    and    Addi- 
tional Comfort  to  the  Blind 94 

Sussex — Fuller's  Charity  to  the  Blind  of  Sussex             95 

Warwickshire — Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind            ...  96 

Worcestershire — Worcester  Municipal  Charities     ......  99 

Yorkshire — 

Bradford  Incorporated  Institution  for  the  Blind     .....  100 

Society  for  the  Home  Teaching  and  Assistance  of  the  Halifax  Blind, 

Halifax             103 

Miss  Irving's  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  Halifax             ....  104 

Harriet  Haigh's  Charity,  Armitage  Bridge,  Near  Huddersfield         .         .  106 

United  Institution  for  the  Blind  and  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Leeds     .         .  108 

Sheffield  Institution  for  the  Blind            .......  109 

Whitby  Trust  for  the  Blind no 

York  Emanuel m 

Dorothy  Wilson's  Charity,  York 112 

Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind,  York 113 


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Glamorganshire — Cardiff  Institute  for  the  Blind ii6 

Pembrokeshire— Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  Haverfordwest  .         .117 

CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE  IN   IRELAND 

Belfast  Society  for  Home  Mission  Work  Amono  the  Blind  in  Ireland     .         .  121 

Association  for  Relief  of  Indigent  Blind  and  Lending  Library,  Dublin          .  122 
National  Institution  and  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind  of  Ireland, 

Leeson  Park,  Dublin 123 

St.  Joseph's  Asylum  and  School  for  Male  Blind,  Drumcondra,  Dublin    .        .  124 

CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE  IN  SCOTLAND 

Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  Dundee 127 

Mrs.  Jane  Stobis  Clark  Fund,  Edinburgh 128 

Edinburgh  and  South-East  of  Scotland  Society  for  teaching  the  Blind  to 

READ 129 

Royal  Blind  Asylum  and  School,  Edinburgh 130 

Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind  for  Glasgow  and  the  West  of  Scotland  .        .  131 


EDITOR'S    PREFACE 


The  title  of  this  Book  has  been  modified  by  the  addition  of 
a  sub-title  in  order  to  disarm  criticism.  The  word  '  Annuities ' 
even  in  the  last  edition  suffered  violence  by  being  made  to 
cover  weekly  grants  and  biennially  paid  pensions,  but  on 
the  present  occasion  not  only  has  this  stretching  process  been 
much  more  largely  resorted  to,  but  a  few  endowed  Charities 
have  been  included  which  distribute  their  income  in  gifts  to 
different  individuals  each  year.  The  introduction  of  these 
latter  was  specially  avoided  in  the  last  edition,  but  has  now 
been  decided  upon,  because  it  is  thought  that  persons  making 
use  of  this  book  in  order  to  discover  sources  of  Relief  in  Money 
for  blind  cases  in  which  they  are  interested  cannot  be  too 
fully  informed  of  the  existence  of  Endowments  likely  to 
afford  assistance  and  not  readily  discoverable  in  any  other 
publication. 

Out  of  the  seventy-three  Charities  described,  all  those 
whose  offices  are  in  London,  twenty-four  in  number,  dis- 
tribute either  the  whole  or  a  portion  of  their  income  in  some 
form  of  help  intended  in  normal  cases  to  be  recurrent,  and 
of  the  remaining  forty-nine,  only  four  confine  their  help  to 
recipients  not  the  same  year  by  year.  It  is  hoped  that  a  wise 
discretion  has  been  exercised  in  including  these. 

With  regard  to  the  order  of  enumeration  the  edition  of  1895 

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followed  in  Part  I  the  arrangement  of  previous  editions,  while 
Part  II  was  formed  on  the  lines  of  Appendix  XIV  of  the 
Report  of  the  late  Royal  Commission  on  the  Blind,  &c. 
(Vol.  II.  p.  222). 

The  present  edition  has  departed  from  these  lines. 

The  Charities  in  Part  I  now  follow  an  alphabetical  plan 
and  those  in  Part  II  are  also  arranged  alphabetically  under 
Counties. 

Thirty-five  Charities,  all  in  England  and  Wales,  were 
enumerated  in  the  last  edition ;  seventy-three  have  now 
been  described,  viz.  the  thirty-six  which  appeared  in 
Appendix  XIV  of  the  Report  of  the  Royal  Commission, 
together  with  thirty-seven  others.  Six  of  these  last  will  be 
found  in  Appendix  XV  of  the  same  Report,  thirteen  have 
been  noted  in  Mr.  Henry  J.  Wilson's  '  List  of  Societies  in 
England  and  Wales  which  assist  the  Blind  by  way  of  Pension  ' 
(contained  in  his  useful  pamphlet,  which  gives  information 
as  to  Institutions,  Societies,  and  Classes  for  the  Blind),  and 
one  has  been  founded  since  the  last  issue  of  that  publication. 
Two  of  the  remaining  seventeen  Charities  have  their  Offices 
in  London,  two  are  in  Lancashire,  four  in  Yorkshire,  four 
in  Ireland,  and  five  in  Scotland.  Of  the  Charities  included 
for  the  first  time,  Howard's  Marylebone  Charity  is  probably 
the  least  known  of  those  in  London,  while  in  the  Provinces 
the  Charities  of  Fenton,  Fountain,  Turner  and  Wintle,  Miss 
Irving's  Charity  at  Halifax,  Harriet  Haigh's  Charity  at 
Huddersfield,  and  the  Dorothy  Wilson  Charity  at  York  will 
be  unfamihar  to  many.  Several  of  these  are  insignificant, 
but  it  seems  curious  that  the  first  and  last  named  should 
not  have  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Royal  Commission. 

I  have  made  full  use  of  the  Reports  of  the  Charity  Com- 
missioners for  England  and  Wales. 

Irish  and  Scottish  Charities  now  for  the  first  time  find 


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a  place  in  this  book,  but  I  do  not  pretend  that  my  information 
with  regard  to  them  is  complete,  and  think  it  very  likely 
that  in  both  countries  Funds  may  exist  which  have  escaped 
my  notice. 

Two  of  the  four  Charities  enumerated  in  Ireland  have 
been  created  only  for  the  Hves  of  special  individuals,  and 
there  seem  to  be  altogether  under  fifty  pensioners  on  Irish 
Funds.  It  will  be  seen  that  the  BUnd  of  Ireland  have  Httle 
to  depend  on  from  Pension  Charities  established  for  their 
benefit  in  their  own  country. 

The  five  Charities  in  Scotland,  on  the  other  hand,  give 
pensions  or  allowances  in  all  to  about  350  blind  persons. 
With  regard  to  the  latter  country  and  the  North  of  England, 
I  have  suffered  much  from  the  caution  of  the  inhabitants, 
who  do  not  readily  make  disclosures  ;  additional  information 
of  a  harmless  character  as  to  the  history  of  one  Northern 
Trust  is  in  my  possession,  but  I  have  been  asked  not  to 
make  it  public. 

This  edition  will  be  found  to  differ  from  the  last  in  two 
points :  a  fuU  index  has  been  added  to  it,  and  the  General 
Register  of  bhnd  Annuitants  has  been  omitted.  The  General 
Register  has  been  printed  separately  for  private  circulation. 


STUART   JOHNSON. 


4,  Eaton  Place,  S.W. 
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CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE  IN 
ENGLAND  AND  WALES 

PART  L— LONDON 


I.— LOiVDOiV.— ASSOCIATION  FOR  PROMOTING   THE 
GENERAL  WELFARE  OF  THE  BLIND 

258  Tottenham  Court  Road,  W. 

Address — Howard  E.  Mullins,  Esq.  (Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  23  blind  persons. 

There  are  no  conditions  beyond  blindness  and  poverty.  The 
amount  of  Pension  for  life  is  regulated  by  the  Committee 
and  the  condition  of  the  funds,  and  Pensions  are  now  only 
granted  to  the  old  workers  of  the  Institution. 

The  lowest  age  among  the  present  Annuitants  is  45  and 
the  highest  67. 

The  Pensions  vary  according  to  the  length  of  employ- 
ment and  character. 

The  total  expended  in  Pensions,  in  1909,  was  £376. 

The  Association,  which  was  founded  in  1856  by  Miss 
Gilbert,  the  blind  daughter  of  a  former  Bishop  of  Chichester, 
has  extensive  workshops  and  employs  over  80  bUnd  work- 
people, at  the  Institution  and  at  their  own  homes ;  it  trains 
the  young  in  Trades,  gives  them  work  when  trained,  and 
pensions  in  old  age. 

The  Society  also  relieves  a  number  of  persons  by  gifts , 
and  expended  £424  in  this  way  in  1909. 

There  is  a  Sick  Club  managed  by  the  Blind,  presided  over 
by  the  Secretary. 


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IL— LONDON. -^BATn  BLIND  SCHOOL  HOME  TRUST 

Address — Royal  Blind  Pension  Society  of  the 
United  Kingdom  (q.v.). 

Grants  Annuities  to  9  blind  women. 

In  the  year  1897  an  arrangement  was  concluded  with  the 
Trustees  of  the  above,  with  the  approval  of  the  Chancery 
Division  of  the  High  Court,  whereby  the  Royal  BUnd  Pension 
Society  is  now  y^^/mg  Annuities  to  the  former  inmates  of  the 
Bath  Blind  School  Home  now  closed.  In  consideration 
thereof,  the  Trust  Funds  of  the  Home,  amounting  to  £7127 
14s.  4^.,  have  been  deposited  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  to  be 
held  in  Trust  until  the  several  Annuities  have  expired,  the 
dividends  being  paid  from  time  to  time  to  the  Royal  BHnd 
Pension  Society 


III.— LOiVDOiV.— BLIND  FEMALE  ANNUITY  SOCIETY 

Address — Royal  Blind  Pension  Society  of  the 
United  Kingdom  (q.v.). 

Grants  Annuities  to  8  blind  women. 

This  Society  commenced  operations,  in  consequence  of 
the  closing,  in  September  1875,  of  the  Home  of  the  BHnd, 
estabhshed  fourteen  years  previously  by  Mrs.  Jameson,  at 
62  Loudoun  Road.  Mrs.  Jameson,  from  her  experience,  had 
been  led  to  think  that  annuities,  as  a  supplemental  help  to  the 
Blind,  leaving  them  free  to  choose  their  own  abode,  might 
possibly  be  a  truer  kindness  than  placing  them  together  in 
a  regular  Hostel  or  Home. 

The  Subscribers  to  the  old  Home,  with  very  few  ex- 
ceptions, gave  their  support  to  the  Annuity  Society.  Mrs. 
Jameson  died  in  October  1875,  and  left  the  sum  of  £200  to 
the  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society. 

The  object  of  the  Society  was  to  assist  (by  means  of 
periodical  pajmients  not  exceeding  Ten  Pounds  per  annum) 
respectable  blind  women,  being  either  widows  or  spinsters, 
to  whom  such  additional  means  of  support  will  secure  the 
necessaries  of  life 

In  pursuance  of  Resolutions  passed  at  Special  Meetings 
of  the  Subscribers,  arrangements  were  concluded  whereby 
the  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society  became  amalgamated 
with  the  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society  from  July  i,  1894. 


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The  Annuities  of  the  BHnd  Female  Annuity  Society  are 
now  paid  by  the  Royal  BUnd  Pension  Society. 

The  Reserve  Fund  of  the  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society, 
consisting  of  £1067  i8s.  7^.  Consols  and  £1476  15s.  ^d.  4  per 
cent.  Cape  of  Good  Hope  Stock,  was  transferred  to  the  Royal 
Blind  Pension  Society,  in  the  names  of  Francis  A.  Bevan, 
Esq.,  and  F.  Peterson  Ward,  Esq.,  Trustees  of  the  Blind 
Female  Annuity  Society,  and  John  C.  Bumsted,  Esq., 
Treasurer  of  the  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society. 

The  Contributions  received  from  the  Subscribers  to  the 
BHnd  Female  Annuity  Society  now  appear  in  the  general 
list,  votes  for  which  are  allowed  according  to  the  rules  of  the 
Royal  BHnd  Pension  Society. 

The  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society  stiU  has  for  the  pur- 
pose of  this  work  a  separate  existence,  there  being  eight 
original  annuitants  whose  names  are  published  in  a  separate 
Hst  by  the  now  united  Charities  :  of  these  2  receive  £10  ;  i 
receives  £6  ;  and  5  receive  £5. 


IV.— lOiVDON.— BLIND    MAN'S    FRIEND    OR    DAY'S 
CHARITY 

Clothworkers'  Hall,  41  Mincing  Lane,  E.G. 

Address — P.  M.  Evans,  Esq.  (Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  250  Blind  Persons, 

Charles  Day  (of  the  firm  of  Day  &  Martin,  Blacking- 
makers),  by  his  Will,  dated  May  i,  1834,  ^^^^  t^®  sum  of 
£100,000,  for  the  benefit  of  persons  suffering  under  the  affliction 
which  he  himself  had  experienced,  the  deprivation  of  light. 
Objections  having  been  raised  to  certain  provisions  in  the  WiU, 
the  Court  of  Chancery,  by  three  Orders,  dated  respectively 
June  15,  1841,  March  15,  1842,  and  July  16,  1843,  settled 
a  Scheme,  and  placed  the  funds  in  trust  with  the  Accountant- 
General,  for  the  interest  of  the  Bhnd  Man's  Friend  Charity, 
and  further  ordered  that  the  interest  should  be  paid  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  Will,  to  be  distributed  by  them  in  the  manner 
set  forth  by  the  Testator. 

This  arrangement  continued  in  operation  until  1908,  when 
it  was  superseded  by  a  Scheme  made  by  the  Charity  Com- 
missioners and  sealed  July  21,  1908,  the  object  being  to 
bring  up  to  date  the  regulations  for  the  administration  of  the 
Charity  and  so  to  secure  its  greater  efficiency. 

A  few  further  amendments  of  the  last-mentioned  Scheme 
have  since  been  carried  out  by  an  amending  Scheme  of  the 
Charity  Conmiissioners  dated  March  15,  1910. 


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The  gross  annual  Income  derived  from  the  Endowment 
of  the  Charity  amounts  to  £3699,  of  which  £3520  is  appro- 
priated for  the  payment  of  pensions  as  follows : 

40  pensions  at  £20.     Class  A £800 

50  pensions  at  £16.     Class  B 800 

160  pensions  at  £12.    Class  C 1920 


£3520 


Owing  to  the  generosity  of  the  Clothworkers*  Company, 
who  have  undertaken  all  the  Secretarial  work  in  connexion 
with  this  Charity  and  provided  Office  accommodation  at 
Clothworkers'  Hall  free  of  charge,  the  funds  of  the  Charity 
are  relieved  ^of  any  annual  charge  for  administration  and 
management  expenses. 

A  pension  of  £100  a  year  is  payable  under  the  Scheme 
to  the  late  Clerk  and  Treasurer,  Mr.  Pinder  Simpson. 

Applicants  must  be  blind  persons  of  good  character,  of  not 
less  than  21  years  of  age — preference  being  given  to  older 
applicants.  They  must  be  in  distressed  or  dependent  circum- 
stances, resident  in  the  United  Kingdom,  and  not  have 
received  Poor-law  relief  other  than  temporary  out-door 
medical  relief  during  the  period  of  two  years  next  preceding 
the  time  of  their  appointment.  The  Pensions  are  now 
granted  for  a  term  of  three  years  in  the  first  instance,  but 
may  be  prolonged  by  the  Trustees  if  they  see  fit.  They  are 
also  subject  to  Regulations  made  by  the  Trustees  from  time 
to  time. 

Blank  Petitions  are  issued  from  the  Office  of  the 
Trustees  between  the  hours  of  Eleven  and  Three  o'clock. 

Petitions  with  the  annexed  certificates  of  birth,  blindness, 
and  marriage  (if  married)  properly  filled  up  and  signed,  are 
to  be  forwarded  to  the  Ofiice  of  the  Trustees,  Clothworkers' 
Hall,  41  Mincing  Lane,  London. 


v.— LOiVDOiV.— CLOTHWORKERS'    COMPANY 
Clothworkers'  Hall,  41  Mincing  Lane,  E.G. 
Address— F.  M.  Evans,  Esq.  (Clerk). 
Grants  Annuities  to  nearly  1000  blind  persons. 

John  and  Frances  West  (i),  by  indentures  of  lease  and 
release  dated  May  23  and  24,  1718,  conveyed  in  Trust  to  the 
Clothworkers'  Company  a  yearly  rent  charge  of  £4  ys.  ^d.  out 
of  a  tenement  in  Comhill,  and  a  Fee  Farm  rent  of  12s.  4^.  out  of 
a  tenement  in  Lombard  Street,  and  also  property  in  Hammer- 
smith and  Twickenham  now  producing  £344  13s.  6d.  per 
annum.  This  Trust  is  for  poor  blind  persons,  one  half  men 
and  the  other  half  women,  as  far  as  the  said  rents,  &c.,  at 
the  rate  of  £5  a  year  each,  extend.  Poor  blind  persons  being 
kindred  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  West  to  be  preferred,  then  blind 
persons  of  Newbury  or  Reading. 

John  and  Frances  West  (2),  by  similar  indentures  dated 
December  23  and  24, 1718,  conveyed  to  the  Company  premises 
in  Old  Street  and  Whitecross  Street  now  supplemented  by 
ground  rents  at  West  Hackney,  and  producing  in  all  £294  5s. 
per  annum.  This  Trust,  after  similar  preferences  for  blind 
persons  being  kindred  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  West  (irrespective  of 
their  place  of  residence),  is  for  poor  blind  persons,  one  half 
men  and  the  other  half  women  of  Isleworth,  Richmond  or 
Twickenham. 

John  and  Frances  West  (3),  by  an  indenture  dated 


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December  23, 1719,  conveyed  to  the  Company  certain  premises 
in  the  Poultry  which  are  now  represented  by  Ground  Rents 
at  West  Hackney  producing  £532  13s.  per  annum.  This  Trust 
is  for  poor  blind  persons  generally  with  preference  for  blind 
kindred  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  West. 

Frances  West  (4),  by  indentures  dated  January  8  and  9, 
1723-4  conveyed  to  the  Company  property  now  represented 
by  Ground  Rents  at  West  Hackney  and  Muswell  Hill  pro- 
ducing in  all  £1652  2s.  6i.  per  annum.  This  Trust  is  for  poor 
blind  persons,  one  half  men  and  the  other  half  women,  living 
in  the  City  of  London  its  liberties,  with  preference  for  bhnd 
kindred  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  West  living  in  the  City  of  London 
its  liberties. 

Frances  West  (5),  by  indentures  dated  December  11 
and  12,  1723,  conveyed  to  the  Company  property  now  repre- 
sented by  Ground  Rents  and  Stocks  producing  £1326  19s.  6d. 
per  annum.  Two-thirds  of  this  Trust  is  for  poor  blind  men 
and  women.  The  other  third  is  for  other  Trusts  not  connected 
with  the  Bhnd. 

Frances  West  (6),  by  a  Codicil  to  her  Will  (the  Will  is 
dated  December  28,  1723,  and  the  Codicil  March  24,  1723-4), 
bequeathed  to  the  Company  property  now  represented  by 
Ground  Rents  at  West  Hackney  producing  £178  per  annum. 
This  Trust  is  for  poor  blind  men  and  women  in  the  City  of 
London  its  liberties,  with  preference  for  kindred  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  West.  Also  blind  persons  of  Reading,  Newbury  and 
Twickenham  are  to  have  preference  before  the  Blind  of  the 
City  of  London  its  liberties. 

Frances  West  (7),  by  a  Codicil  dated  November  12, 1724, 
bequeathed  to  the  Company  property  now  represented  by 
similar  Ground  Rents  producing  £66  per  annum.  This  Trust 
is  for  poor  blind  men  and  women  Hving  in  the  town  of  Henley- 
on-Thames  with  preference  for  blind  kindred  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
West  living  in  Henley-on-Thames. 


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If  there  is  a  failure  of  sufficient  Blind  living  in  Henley, 
then  to  poor  men  and  women  not  blind  of  the  age  of  50  years 
at  least  living  in  that  town. 

Thomas  Newnam  by  his  Will  dated  July  9,  1800,  and 
proved  January  11,  1810,  bequeathed  to  the  Company  £10,000 
Consols.  £9,000  Consols  were  transferred  to  the  Company's 
name  by  the  Executrix  who  had  paid  the  legacy  duty.  This 
is  now  represented  by  Ground  Rents  producing  £382  los.  per 
annum  and  by  Bank  of  England  Stock  producing  £18  per 
annum.  This  Trust  provides  pensions  of  £10  each  for  20 
poor  bUnd  men  and  20  poor  blind  women. 

William  Thwaytes  by  his  Will  dated  March  24, 1831,  and 
proved  January  6, 1835,  bequeathed  to  the  Company  £20,000. 
This  amount  less  legacy  duty  was  invested  on  March  10,  1835, 
in  the  purchase  of  £19,591  16s.  gd.  3  per  cent.  Consols.  This 
is  now  represented  by  Ground  Rents  producing  £818  per 
anmmi.  This  Trust  is  for  poor  blind  persons  in  pensions. 
None  of  them  are  to  have  from  it  more  than  £10  annually. 

Hannah  Acton  in  October  1837  g^-ve  a  free  gift  of  £1000 
to  the  Company.  This  is  now  represented  by  Ground  Rents 
producing  £42  per  annum.  This  Trust  provides  pensions  of 
£10  per  annum  to  four  blind  persons. 

Edward  Gregory  by  deed  of  gift  dated  June  4,  1845, 
gave  to  the  Company  a  rent  charge  of  £4  per  annum  issuing 
out  of  property  at  Cowlesfield,  Cowlesfield-Esturmey,  and 
Whiteparish,  in  the  County  of  Wilts.  This  Trust,  subject  to 
certain  conditions,  provides  £4  yearly  for  one  of  the  three  most 
aged  blind  pensioners  of  the  Company,  with  preference  for  any 
blind  pensioner  who  might  be  a  member  of  the  Company. 

George  Cornell  by  his  Will  dated  April  5, 1850,  bequeathed 
to  the  Company  £2000  3  per  cent,  reduced  Annuities.  The 
Company  only  received  £1800  stock  after  pajmient  of  legacy 
duty,  but  purchased  other  £200  stock  out  of  their  own  funds. 
Both  these  amounts  are  now  represented  by  Ground  Rents 


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producing  £79  per  annum.  This  Trust  is  expended  by  the 
Company  in  pensions  of  £10  each  to  seven  blind  persons. 
There  is  a  preference  to  blind  members  of  the  Clothworkers' 
Company  and  subject  thereto  to  blind  Citizens  of  London. 

Thomas  William  Wing  by  his  Will  dated  October  22, 
1884,  and  proved  April  3,  1889,  bequeathed  to  the  Company 
£70,000  2j  per  cent.  Annuities.  This  Trust  is  expended 
by  the  Company  in  pensions  of  £20  each  to  those  who 
have  been  in  a  better  station  of  life  and  are  disabled  by 
blindness  from  maintaining  themselves,  who  on  that  account 
are  or  may  become  a  burden  on  their  children  or  relations 
and  who  having  but  little  of  their  own  want  some  addition  to 
what  they  have  to  make  life  more  comfortable  under  such  an 
infirmity.  Preference  is  given  to  those  who  have  become 
blind  after  attaining  maturity,  such  being  generally  more 
helpless  than  those  born  blind.  Applicants  must  not  be 
entitled  to  any  Estate,  Annuity,  Salary,  Pension  or  income 
for  life  exceeding  £50  per  annum. 

Though  there  is  no  absolute  restriction  in  respect  of  age, 
preference  in  this  Charity  {cceteris  paribus)  will  be  given  to 
persons  over  forty  years  of  age. 

Excepting  the  Wing  bequest  and  Gregory's  pension  of  £4 
for  the  oldest  annuitant,  all  the  pensions  are  at  present  either  £10 
or  £5  and  most  of  the  latter  are  shortly  to  be  increased  to  £10. 

Elizabeth  Love  by  her  Will  dated  March  12,  1805  left 
a  sum  which  is  now  represented  by  £286  South-Eastern 
Railway  3J  per  cent.  Debenture  Stock.  The  interest  on  this 
legacy  is  given  each  year  to  a  blind  person  as  a  gift.  This 
is  not  an  annuity  and  the  Master  of  the  Company  appoints. 

The  Company  have  also  been  appointed  Trustees  of  the 
following  Charities  for  the  benefit  of  the  Blind  : 

I.  The  Armitage  Memorial  Fund  founded  in  memory  of 
the  late  Dr.  T.  R.  Armitage.  It  consists  of  £1550  Great  Eastern 
Railway  4  per  cent.  Stock  and  £1200  Great  Western  Railway 


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5  per  cent.  Stock  producing  together  £122  per  annum.  This 
Trust  is  for  augmenting  the  funds  of  the  British  and  Foreign 
Blind  Association. 

2.  The  Blind  Women-Workers  Annuity  Fund.  This 
consists  of  £3110  Rhondda  Urban  District  Council  3J  per 
cent.  Redeemable  Debenture  Stock  (1943)  producing  £108  17s. 
per  annum.  This  Trust  is  for  annuities  to  blind  women- 
workers  nominated  during  her  lifetime  by  the  Foundress. 

3.  The  Henry  Fawcett  Memorial  Scholarship  Fund. 
This  consists  of  £1250  Great  Northern  Railway  4  per  cent.  Stock 
producing  £50  per  annum.  This  Trust  provides  a  scholarship 
for  a  blind  student  at  any  of  the  Universities  of  the  United 
Kingdom  including  women's  colleges. 

4.  The  Fund  for  the  Blind  of  Hastings  and  St. 
Leonards.  This  consists  of  500  £1  shares  in  the  Improved 
Industrial  Dwellings  Company  Limited  producing  £25  per 
annum.  This  Trust  is  for  the  benefit  (after  the  cesser  of  two 
life  interests)  of  the  BUnd  of  Hastings  and  St.  Leonards. 

The  following  memoranda  are  issued  by  the  Company  for 
the  information  of  applicants  for  their  pensions. 

Except  with  regard  to  the  Wing  Pensions  the  qualifications 
for  which  are  stated  above,  appUcants  must  be  not  less  than 
fifty  years  of  age — preference  being  given  to  older  applicants 
— of  sober  Hfe  and  good  morals  ;  have  been  totally  blind  for 
three  years  ;  not  be  entitled  to  any  Estate,  Annuity,  Salary, 
Pension,  or  Income  for  life  exceeding  £20  a  year  j  nor  be  an 
inmate  of  a  Workhouse  or  Public  Institution,  nor  in  receipt 
of  Parochial  Relief  ;   nor  pubHcly  solicit  or  receive  Alms. 

Blank  Petitions  are  issued  from  the  Company's  Office 
between  the  hours  of  Eleven  and  Three  o'clock. 

The  Petitions  must  be  properly  filled  up,  signed,  and 
forwarded  with  certificates  of  birth,  blindness  and  marriage  (if 
married),  to  the  Company's  Office,  at  their  Hall,  41  Mincing 
Lane  London. 


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VL— LOiVDOiV.— CORDWAINERS  COMPANY 

CoRDWAiNERS  Hall,  7  Cannon  Street,  E.G. 

Address — C.    H.  Waterland  Mander,  Esq.,  M.A.,  LL.M. 

(Clerk). 

Grants  Annuities  of  £5  per  annum  to  116  blind  persons. 

John  Came,  by  his  Will  dated  August  12,  1782,  and  by 
a  Codicil  thereto,  bequeathed  to  the  Master,  Wardens  and 
Court  of  Assistants  of  the  Worshipful  Company  of  Cord- 
wainers,  all  the  Stock  standing  in  his  name  in  the  different 
funds  at  the  Bank  of  England  at  the  time  of  his  decease, 
which  occurred  in  1796,  upon  trust  (after  payment  of  an 
annuity  of  £60  to  the  Company)  to  distribute  annually  the 
dividends  to  and  amongst  clergymen's  widows,  blind  persons, 
and  deaf  and  dumb  persons  coming  within  the  descriptions 
mentioned  in  his  Will  in  proportions  of  £5  each. 

The  following  are  the  qualifications  for  blind  applicants  : 

The  men  must  not  be  less  than  forty-five  years  of  age  ;  the 
women,  if  married,  not  less  than  forty  ;  if  widows  or  maidens 
not  less  than  thirty.  Must  be  totally  blind,  must  never  have 
received  any  allowance  or  support  from  any  Parish,  nor  have 
ever  begged  in  the  streets  ;  must  reside  in  London  or  within 
100  miles  thereof,  and  be  of  sober  life  and  conversation. 

The  trust  funds  consisted  of  £18,200  Consols  and  £18,200 
Reduced  Annuities,  which  were  transferred  by  the  Executors 


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into  the  names  of  the  Master  Wardens  and  Commonalty  of 
the  Company  in  its  Corporate  capacity,  and  are  now  repre- 
sented by  the  sum  of  £36,382  12s.  id.  India  3  per  cent.  Stock. 
The  dividends  (after  payment  of  the  Annuity)  are  distributed 
annually  by  the  Company  among  116  blind  persons,  40 
clergymen's  widows,  and  50  deaf  and  dumb  persons  coming 
within  the  descriptions  in  the  Will,  in  sums  of  £5  each.  The 
Company  pay  out  of  their  own  funds  the  costs  of  manage- 
ment, and  for  some  years  past  have  out  of  their  own  funds 
doubled  the  Pensions  paid  to  the  40  clergymen's  widows. 

Vacancies  are  filled  up  by  the  Court  of  Assistants  in  the 
month  of  December  in  every  year. 

Applicants  are  supplied  with  a  form  which  may  be  obtained 
at  the  Company's  Hall.  It  has  to  be  filled  up  and  sent  to 
the  Clerk  of  the  Company.  If  the  case  is  eligible  a  form  of 
Petition  is  supplied.  The  statements  in  the  Petition  must  be 
verified  by  the  signatures  of  six  of  the  principal  inhabitants 
of  the  parish  in  which  the  Petitioner  Uves.  Certificates  of 
age,  blindness,  and  marriage  (if  married),  must  be  annexed 
to  the  Petition.  The  Petitioner  must  have  some  means  of 
support  in  addition  to  the  Pension. 

If  the  Petitioner  is  not  elected  within  three  years  a  new 
Petition  must  be  presented. 

At  this  time  (February  1910)  there  are  upwards  of  30 
blind  persons  applying  for  election.  The  average  number  of 
vacancies  in  a  year  seldom  exceeds  ten. 

Elizabeth  Love  by  her  will  dated  March  12,  1805,  be- 
queathed to  the  Company  £265  i6s.  6d.  Consols,  now  repre- 
sented by  £249  IIS.  3^.  Nottingham  Corporation  3  per  cent. 
Stock.  The  dividend  (between  £7  and  £8  yearly)  is  paid 
by  the  Company  to  the  most  aged  blind  person  on  the 
list  of  Came's  Pensioners,  in  lieu  of  his  or  her  share  of  Came's 
Charity;  another  Pensioner  being  thereupon  elected  on 
Came's  list. 


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Martha  and  Ann  Woolnough  two  sisters,  formerly  Pen- 
sioners on  Game's  Charity,  having  become  possessed  of  some 
property,  handed  over  to  the  Company  the  sum  of  £ioo, 
with  a  letter  dated  December  9,  1863,  expressing  a  desire  that 
the  Company  would  apply  the  same  for  the  benefit  of  blind 
persons  at  their  discretion.  The  Company  invested  the 
amount  in  the  purchase  of  £110  3s.  lod.  Reduced  Annuities, 
now  represented  by  £100  London  and  South- Western  Con- 
solidated 3  per  cent.  Debenture  Stock,  the  dividend  on  which 
is  paid  annually  to  the  Pensioner  who  has  been  longest  on  the 
List  of  Came's  Charity,  in  addition  to  the  Pension  of  £5 
received  from  that  Charity. 


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VII,— lOiVDOiV.— DRAPERS'  COMPANY 

Address  {for  Blind  Pensions) — Blind  Man's  Friend 
Charity  (q.v.). 

Grants  Pensions  of  £io  each  every  other  year  to  14  hliruL 

persons, 

Jonathan  Granger,  by  his  Will  dated  May  16, 1769,  left 
the  sum  of  £1000  to  apprentice  or  put  forth  into  service 
his  kindred. 

After  other  gifts,  he  devised  his  residue  alternately  for 
BUnd  Persons  one  year  at  £10  each,  and  for  apprenticing 
children  of  freemen  £10  each  the  next  year.  The  fund  was 
invested  in  £4674  los.  dd.  Consols. 

All  apphcants  have  been  called  upon  to  produce  from 
the  minister  and  churchwardens  of  the  parish  in  which  they 
reside,  a  certificate  of  good  fame  for  honesty  and  sobriety, 
as  required  by  order  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  *  and  the  Court 
of  Wardens  have  made  a  selection  from  such  as  are  properly 
quaUfied.  The  same  persons  have  generally  continued  to 
receive  the  pension  during  life,  or  so  long  as  they  were  in 
circumstances  to  require  and  deserve  it. 

The  distribution  has  taken  place  in  January,  every  second 
year  from  the  year  1784,  in  which  year  on  November  30 
an  order  of  the  Court  was  made  regulating  the  matter.  The 
charity  is  about  to  be  put  upon  another  footing  and  in  future 
the  appointments  are  to  be  made  by  the  trustees  of  Day's 
Bhnd  Man's  Friend  Charity.  The  quahfication  required  of 
the  recipients  is  total  blindness,  and  it  has  not  been  the 
practice  to  give  a  pension  to  a  person  in  receipt  of  parochial 
relief. 


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VIII.— lOiVDOiV.— GARDNER'S    TRUST    FOR    THE 
BLIND 

53  Victoria  Street,  Westminster,  S.W. 

Address — Henry  J.  Wilson,  Esq.  {Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  225  blind  persons. 

Henry  Gardner,  of  i  Westbourne  Terrace,  Hyde  Park, 
at  his  death  on  January  9,  1879,  left  by  will,  (dated  July 
24,  1876,  with  a  codicil  dated  May  15,  1877,)  the  sum 
of  £300,000,  free  of  legacy  duty,  upon  Trust,  to  employ 
the  same  and  the  income  thereof  for  the  purpose  of 
benefiting  bUnd  persons  residing  in  England  or  Wales, 
by  all  or  any  of  the  means  hereinafter  mentioned ;  that 
is  to  say,  by  instructing  poor  blind  persons  residing  in 
England  or  Wales,  in  suitable  trades,  handicrafts,  and 
professions,  especially  in  the  profession  of  music — by  pro- 
viding Pensions  for  poor  and  deserving  blind  persons, 
residing  as  aforesaid,  who  might  be  incapable  of  earning 
their  Hvehhood — and  generally  in  such  other  manner  as  the 
said  Committee  should  from  time  to  time  think  best. 

The  Committee  of  Management  appointed  by  Henry 
Gardner  were  his  four  Executors  and  the  person  who  at  his 
decease  should  be  Bishop  of  London.  In  order  to  arrive  at 
the  best  way  of  deahng  with  the  Fund,  it  was  resolved  that 
the  matter  should  be  referred  to  the  Court  of  Chancery,  where, 


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after  a  friendly  suit,  a  scheme,  dated  January  20,  1882,  was 
drawn  up  and  approved.  This  was  varied  by  an  order  issued 
(in  pursuance  of  an  application  by  the  Committee)  by  the 
Charity  Commissioners  February  23,  1894,  whereby  after 
pa5nnent  of  all  necessary  expenses  of  management : 

1.  Two-ninths  of  the  income  will  henceforth  be  applied 

to  the  instruction  of  Music. 

2.  Two-ninths  to  the  instruction  of  Trades,    Handi- 

crafts and  Professions. 

3.  Two-ninths  in  providing  Pensions,  and 

4.  One-third  in  such  manner  as  the  Committee  shall 

think  best  for  the  benefit  of  the  Blind. 

The  Committee  have  absolute  discretion  in  managing  and 
carrying  into  effect  the  scheme  of  the  Charity  in  accordance 
with  these  provisions. 

During  the  year  1909  £2865  was  granted  to  225  pensioners. 
There  are  28  pensioners  at  £20,  67  at  £15,  and  130  at  £10 
a  year.  Payment  is  made  by  cheque  quarterly  in  advance. 
The  Pensions  are  terminable  by  the  Committee  on  six  months' 
notice,  and  under  certain  eventualities  are  immediately 
withdrawn. 

The  applications  for  pensions,  many  of  which  are  most 
urgent  and  deserving  of  consideration,  have  been  so  very 
numerous  that  the  Committee  would  be  glad  to  receive  any 
special  donations  towards  the  pension  fund. 

There  is  no  restriction  as  to  age.  Persons  in  receipt  of 
Parish  Relief  are,  by  one  of  the  regulations  drawn  up  for  the 
general  guidance  of  the  Committee,  ineligible.  No  assistance 
is  given  to  street  musicians  and  the  intermarriage  of  blind 
persons  is  much  deprecated.  Applicants  should,  in  the  first 
instance,  send  name,  age,  and  address,  to  the  Secretary,  and 
should  state  exactly  how  they  are  at  present  supported — to 
what  their  average  weekly  income  amounts,  and  from  what 
sources  it  is  derived.     Full  particulars  should  also  be  sent  as  to 


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whether  the  applicant  be  married  or  not,  and  the  ages  of 
the  children,  if  there  be  any.  A  letter  from  the  clergyman 
of  the  parish  in  which  the  applicant  lives,  or  from  the  minister 
of  the  chapel  which  he  attends,  should  be  forwarded  to  the 
Secretary,  certifying  from  personal  knowledge  that  the  appli- 
cant is  of  good  character,  thoroughly  deserving,  and  in  real 
need  of  assistance  from  the  Trust. 

Much  attention  has  lately  been  given  by  the  Committee 
to  a  readjustment  of  some  of  the  pensions  consequent  on  the 
passing  of  the  Old  Age  Pensions  Act,  1908,  so  as  to  avoid 
any  action  being  taken  by  which  a  beneficiary  would  suffer 
pecuniary  loss.  In  this  matter  the  Committee  have  been 
greatly  assisted  by  the  cordial  co-operation  of  the  Qoth- 
workers'  Company  and  of  Hetherington's  Charity  in  regard 
to  joint  pensioners. 

The  Committee  have  received  an  intimation  of  a  bequest 
to  the  Trust  by  the  will  of  the  late  Miss  E.  R.  Lord,  viz. :  a 
specific  gift  of  £1000  for  providing  an  annual  dinner  to  blind 
persons,  and  also  the  residue  of  part  of  her  property  for 
providing  pensions  of  10s.  a  week  for  an  equal  number  of 
bhnd  English  men  and  blind  English  women,  who  have  lost 
their  sight  after  their  20th  year  and  are  over  35  years  of  age. 
As,  however,  the  property  is  in  America,  and  has  to  be  realised 
it  is  probable  that  the  funds  will  not  be  available  for  adminis- 
tration for  some  considerable  time. 


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IX.— lOiVDOiV.— GOLDSMITHS'  COMPANY 
Goldsmiths'  Hall,  Foster  Lane,  Cheapside,  EC. 
Address — Sir  Walter  Prideaux  (Clerk). 
Grants  Annuities  of  ;f20  per  annum  to  67  blind  persons. 

Rachel  Farmer,  of  Jewin  Street,  in  the  City  of  London, 
by  Will  bearing  date  September  18,  1813,  gave  to  the  Master 
Wardens  and  Assistants  of  the  Company  of  Goldsmiths, 
and  their  successors,  £1000  stock  in  the  4  per  cent.  Consols  ; 
'  to  give  the  interest  of  the  same  to  ten  poor  blind  men  and 
women,  as  often  and  in  such  sums  as  they  should  think  proper.' 

In  July,  18 13,  £900  stock  was  transferred  to  the  Company, 
£100  stock  being  deducted  for  legacy  duty.  As  the  dividend 
of  the  remainder  would  not  amount  to  £4  for  each  person, 
the  Company  thought  it  advisable  to  let  it  accumulate  till  it 
should  produce  the  dividends  for  each.  This  was  effected,  and 
the  Company  appropriated  the  dividends  to  the  use  of  ten 
poor  blind  persons,  as  directed  by  the  testatrix. 

This  arrangement  has  now  been  changed  by  the  Charity 
Commissioners,  on  the  apphcation  of  the  Goldsmiths'  Com- 
pany. 

Harry  Osborne  Cureton,  the  distinguished  numismatist 
of  the  British  Museum,  by  Deed  dated  February  9,  1838,  and 
by  his  Will  dated  July  19,  1848,  gave  to  the  Goldsmiths' 
Company  the  sum  of  ;f5ooo  Consols  for  the  relief  of  poor 
blind  aged  men,  subject  to  various  conditions  and  restrictions. 

The  Company  soon  found  that  they  would  be  unable  to 
administer  this  Charity  according  to  the  strict  terms  of 
Cureton's  Deed  and  Will,  for  there  was  a  lack  of  candidates 
falling  within  the  conditions  of  the  gift,  and  accordingly, 


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Upon  the  application  of  the  Company,  the  Charity  Com- 
missioners sanctioned  a  scheme  November  17,  1868,  under 
which  the  income  of  the  Charity  is  now  appUed  towards  the 
support  and  assistance  of  poor  bhnd  persons  residing  in  the 
County  of  Middlesex,  such  county  being  taken  to  include 
the  Cities  of  London  and  Westminister. 

In  selecting  the  recipients,  the  Company  are  to  have  regard 
to  the  following  quahfications,  and  are  to  give  preference 
to  candidates,  being  otherwise  deserving  objects,  in  the 
following  order : — 

1.  Freemen  of  the  Company  who  are  of  the  Craft. 

2.  Other  Freemen  of  the  Company,  and  their  widows. 

3.  Freemen  of  the  City  of  London,  and  their  widows  ;  and 

4.  Other  poor  bhnd  persons  residing  in  the  County  of 

Middlesex. 

The  benefit  of  the  Charity  may  be  conferred  on  the  re- 
cipients either  by  way  of  direct  pension  or  money  gift,  or 
indirectly,  in  the  shape  of  clothing,  payment  of  rent, 
schooling  of  children,  or  in  any  other  mode  of  assistance 
which  the  Company  may  think  proper  to  adopt. 

Applicants  must  be  over  50  years  of  age,  totally  Blind  for 
twelve  months,  and  not  have  an  income  exceeding  £25  a  year. 
They  must  not  be  in  receipt  of  any  other  charity  for  the  Blind. 

There  is  a  prescribed  form  of  petition,  but  forms  are  only 
issued  when  an  election  is  about  to  take  place. 

Vacancies  are  always  advertised. 

(Fund  £4800  £2  los.  per  cent.  Consols.) 

Since  the  year  1874,  during  the  pleasure  of  the  Court,  the 
Company  has  also  paid  60  pensions  of  £20  each  to  poor 
blind  persons  out  of  their  general  corporate  funds. 

Applicants  must  be  resident  in  Middlesex,  Kent,  Essex, 
Herts,  or  Surrey.  Preference  given  to  Freemen  of  the  Com- 
pany and  their  widows.  No  limit  as  to  age.  All  applications 
to  be  made  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Company  at  the  Hall. 


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X.—i:0iVZ)(9iV.— GOVERNESSES'  BENEVOLENT 
INSTITUTION 

32  Sackville  Street,  Piccadilly. 

Address — ^A.  Wesley  Dennis,  Esq.  (Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  5  blind  women. 

This  Institution,  founded  in  1843,  grants  annuities  to  the 
BHnd  from  the  following  funds. 

The  Blind  Governess  Annuity  was  founded  in  i860  by 
a  collection  made  by  Lady  Kay-Shuttleworth  and  Lady  Anne 
Tufnell,  who  appointed  the  first  nominee.  It  is  to  be  held 
always  by  a  blind  Governess  from  the  list  of  candidates.  The 
Annuity  was  originally  £20,  but  it  was  raised  to  £25  by  the 
Annmty  Increase  Fund  and  to  £30  by  part  of  Legacy  from 
Miss  S.  Stredwick. 

The  David  Laing  Annuity  of  £30  was  founded  in  1863 
by  a  subscription  in  acknowledgment  of  the  services  of  the 
Rev.  David  Laing,  first  Honorary  Secretary  to  the  Society.  It 
is  for  a  bhnd  Governess  and  is  in  the  gift  of  Mrs.  Laing  for  her 
life.  Subsequent  appointments  are  to  be  made  by  the 
Board. 

The  Hickson  Annuity  for  a  blind  Governess  was  founded 
in  1865  by  T.  H.  Hill,  Esq.,  and  the  Misses  Hill,  who  retain 
the  nomination  for  their  lives.  The  Annuity  was  originally 
£20,  but  it  was  raised  to  £25  by  the  Annuity  Increase  Fund, 


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The  Elizabeth  Annuity  of  £50  for  a  blind  Governess 
was  founded  in  1872  by  a  donation  of  £1250  4  per  cent.  Midland 
Railway  Debenture  Stock.  It  is  in  the  gift  of  A.  E.  Godson, 
Esq.,  and  E.  P.  Godson,  Esq.,  for  their  lives,  and  is  afterwards 
to  be  administered  by  the  Society. 

The  Drury  Annuity  of  £30  was  founded  in  1876  by  a 
collection  of  £1000  Consols  by  Mrs.  Drury.  It  is  intended  to 
be  held  by  a  blind  Governess.  If  on  the  occasion  of  a  vacancy 
there  be  no  blind  Governess  on  the  list  of  candidates,  the 
Annuity  to  be  at  disposal  of  the  Board. 

The  rules  are  as  follows  : — 

Ladies  eligible  for  an  Annuity  shall  have  been  Governesses 
above  the  age  of  Fifty,  single  or  widows,  British  Subjects 
by  birth.  Nursery  Governesses,  Keepers  of  Schools,  or 
Teachers  in  Schools,  who  have  not  been  Governesses,  are 
ineligible. 

Marriage  shall  at  any  time  vacate  the  Annuity. 

The  Electors  shaU  be  subscribers  of  Half-a-Guinea 
and  upwards ;  One  Vote  being  allowed  for  every  Annual 
Subscription  of  Half-a-Guinea  during  its  continuance,  and 
for  every  Five  Guineas  paid  in  one  sum. 

Candidates  must  be  approved  by  the  Board  before 
they  can  stand  an  Election  ;  and  the  Board  have  power 
to  remove  from  the  list  of  Candidates  any  Lady  whose  con- 
duct after  her  nomination  is  likely  to  bring  discredit  on  the 
Institution. 

No  Lady  may  be  admitted  or  retained  as  a  Candidate,  or 
elected  to  an  Annuity,  whose  annual  income  exceeds  £30 
from  secured  sources  or  £50  from  employment,  or  whose  total 
income  is  more  than  £60  per  annum. 

Save  in  circumstances  which  the  Board  may  deem 
exceptional,  Candidates  must  have  been  Governesses  in 
private  families  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  14  years  in  all, 
and  those  who  have  not  followed  this  calling  during  some 


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part  of  the  15  years  preceding  their  application  are  con- 
sidered ineligible. 

In  case  it  shall  be  found,  after  any  Candidate  has  been 
declared  duly  elected,  that  the  Election  has  been  unfairly 
obtained  (by  the  pajmient  of  money  for  proxies  to  any  person 
whatsoever,  or  by  any  other  undue  means),  or  that  the 
Candidate  was  ineligible  or  unsuitable,  the  Board  shall  set 
aside  the  Candidate  so  elected,  and  supply  the  vacancy  by 
the  next  eligible  and  suitable  Candidate  upon  the  Poll. 

All  Candidates  approved  subsequently  to  the  year  1908 
shall,  save  under  very  exceptional  circumstances,  when  quali- 
fied by  age  be  required  to  apply  to  the  State  for  an  old  age 
pension ;  and  every  Annuitant  elected  from  Candidates 
approved  subsequently  to  that  date  shall,  if  the  Board  think 
fit,  and  save  under  very  exceptional  circumstances,  when 
qualified  by  age  for  a  State  pension,  have  the  aforesaid  Annuity, 
reduced,  so  as  to  render  her  eligible  for  a  pension  of  the  largest 
possible  amount,  provided  always  that  such  reduction  does 
not  involve  any  pecuniary  loss  to  her. 

The  Annuity  shall  be  vacated  by  any  transfer  of  any 
kind. 

The  Board  have  power  to  withhold,  and  shall  not  be 
liable  for,  the  payment  of  any  Annuity  during  such  period 
as  an  Annuitant  may,  by  reason  of  mental  incapacity,  become 
an  inmate  of  any  County  Lunatic  Asylum,  or  Union  House, 
or  be  in  receipt  of  Parish  rehef . 

The  Board  have  power  to  withhold,  and  shall  not  be 
liable  for,  the  payment  of  an  Annuity  during  such  period 
as  an  Annuitant  may  be  in  receipt,  from  any  other  sources 
than  the  Annuity,  of  an  income  exceeding  £40  per  annum. 


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XL— LONDON.— RON.  FRANCES  HARLEY'S  CHARITY 
FOR  POOR  BLIND  PERSONS 

Address — C.  and  S.  Harrison  &  Co.,  19  Bedford  Row,  W.C. 

Grants  Annuities  of  £20  per  annum  to  12  blind  persons. 

Frances  Harley,  by  deed,  dated  January  28,  1841, 
enrolled  in  Chancery  March  26,  1841,  assigned  certain 
property  (which  has  since  been  sold)  to  Trustees,  upon 
Trust,  to  invest  the  proceeds  in  the  stocks  or  funds  of  Great 
Britain,  or  at  interest  upon  Government  or  real  securities 
in  England  and  Wales  ;  and  to  stand  possessed  of  the  trust 
funds  and  securities  and  the  annual  produce  thereof  upon 
trust, — as  to  one  moiety  of  the  trust  premises  and  the  produce 
thereof,  for  or  towards  the  maintenance  and  clothing  or 
otherwise  promoting  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  the 
several  bhnd  persons  who  should  for  the  time  being  be  entitled 
to  the  benefit  of  the  Charity.  The  several  Annuities,  or  yearly 
sums  of  £20  each,  by  the  regulations  thereunder  written, 
were  directed  to  be  appUed  for  their  benefit  respectively,  it 
being  the  declared  intention  of  the  foundress  that  the  Annuity 
of  £20  should  from  time  to  time  be  paid  to  some  friend  or 
friends  with  whom  such  blind  annuitants  should  live,  and  who 
should,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  trustees,  or  trustee,  for  the 
time  being,  undertake  to  take  the  care  of  such  blind  person, 
and  to  apply  the  said  Annuity  in  or  towards  providing  for 
the  comfortable  maintenance  and  clothing  of  such  blind 


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person — and  that  each  Annuity  should  be  payable  quarterly. 
And  as  to  the  other  moiety  of  the  said  trust  premises,  upon 
trusts  for  widows  of  clergymen  of  the  Church  of  England. 

The  deed  empowers  the  trustees,  in  case  the  income 
should  at  any  time  exceed  by  £20  or  upwards  the  amount 
wanted  for  pa5dng  the  several  Annuities  of  £20  each,  to 
increase  the  number  of  persons  to  any  extent,  provided 
there  should  be  sufficient  annual  income  to  pay  each  old 
and  new  object  the  full  annuity  of  £20 ;  but  directs,  in  the 
event  of  the  income  proving  deficient  to  pay  each  object 
the  full  annuity  of  £20,  that  the  number  of  recipients  is  not 
to  be  reduced  below  six. 

The  Funds  appHcable  to  the  Trust  of  the  Poor  Blind, 
consist  of  a  sum  of  £4151  3s.  India  3  per  cent.  Stock  and 
£3682  17s.  7^.  New  Zealand  3J  per  cent.  Stock. 

No  person  is  eligible  who  is  not  a  member  of  the  '  United 
Church  of  England  and  Ireland.* 

Each  Candidate  for  the  Charity  shall  be  a  blind  person, 
of  any  age,  of  either  sex,  of  respectable  moral  character,  and 
in  indigent  circumstances.  And  each  such  Candidate,  or  the 
person  or  persons  acting  on  his  or  her  behalf,  must  be  able 
to  produce  some  friend  or  friends,  of  respectable  character, 
with  whom  it  is  proposed  that  he  or  she  shall  reside ;  and 
who  will  undertake,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Manager  or 
Managers  of  the  Charity,  to  take  care  of  such  bhnd  person, 
and  to  apply  the  Charity  fund  in  or  towards  his  or  her  main- 
tenance and  clothing,  or  otherwise  for  the  promotion  of  his  or 
her  personal  comfort  and  convenience. 

Each  person  elected  to  receive  the  benefit  of  the  Charity 
will  become  entitled  to  an  annuity  of  £20  during  his  or  her 
life,  subject  as  hereinafter  mentioned.  Such  annuity  to  be 
payable  quarterly  to  the  friend  or  friends  undertaking  to  take 
care  of  such  person,  in  order  that  the  same  may  be  applied 
by  such  friend  or  friends  for  the  purposes  specified.     But 


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in  case  of  the  person  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  Charity 
misconducting  himself  or  herself  by  being  guilty  of  any 
openly  immoral  or  irreligious  conduct,  or  ceasing  to  reside 
with  the  friend  or  friends  who  shall  have  undertaken 
to  provide  for  him  or  her ;  or  in  case  it  shall  be  discovered 
that  such  person,  or  any  person  or  persons  acting  on  his 
or  her  behalf,  has  or  have  made  any  false  statement  in 
relation  to  his  or  her  circumstances,  or  character,  or  religious 
opinions,  with  a  view  to  impose  upon  the  Manager  or  Managers 
of  the  Charity,  his  or  her  annuity  shall  be  liable  to  be  sus- 
pended or  entirely  discontinued  as  the  Manager  or  Managers 
of  the  Charity  may  think  proper.  And  in  case  the  Manager 
or  Managers  of  the  Charity  shall  think  fit  to  suspend  or 
entirely  discontinue  the  payment  of  the  annuity  of  any  such 
person,  he  or  they  shall  not  be  obliged  to  assign  any  reason 
for  doing  so  ;  it  being  expressly  understood  that  the  power 
of  suspending  or  discontinuing  such  annuity  shall  be  in  every 
case  left  to  the  sole  and  uncontrolled  discretion  of  the  Manager 
or  Managers  of  the  Charity  for  the  time  being,  who  shall  not 
be  accountable  to  any  person  whomsoever  for  the  exercise 
of  such  discretion,  or  be  obhged  to  state  the  grounds  on  which 
the  same  has  been  exercised. 

In  case  any  friend  or  friends,  who  shall  have  undertaken, 
in  manner  aforesaid,  to  provide  for  any  bHnd  person  being 
an  object  of  this  Charity,  shall  die,  or  cease  to  provide  for  him 
or  her  according  to  the  tenor  of  such  undertaking  ;  or  in  case, 
by  any  reason  of  any  misconduct  or  incapacity  of  such  friend 
or  friends,  the  Manager  or  Managers  of  the  Charity  shall  at 
any  time  think  fit  not  to  pay  the  Annuity  to  him,  or  her, 
or  them,  any  longer,  some  other  friend  or  friends,  willing  to 
undertake  the  same  office  shall,  as  soon  as  may  be,  be  named 
by  or  on  the  part  of  such  blind  person  to  the  Manager  or 
Managers  of  the  Charity,  in  the  same  manner  as  at  the  first : 
and  until  a  new  friend  or  friends  shall  have  been  approved  of. 


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for  the  purpose  of  receiving  the  annuity  on  behalf  of  such 
bhnd  person,  the  same  shall  either  be  paid  or  applied  for  the 
benefit  of  such  person,  or  the  pa5anent  thereof  shall  be  sus- 
pended, as  the  Manager  or  Managers  may  think  fit. 

A  proportionate  part  of  the  Annuity,  up  to  the  day  of 
the  death  of  each  person  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  Charity, 
will  be  paid  or  applied  by  or  under  the  direction  of  the  Manager 
or  Managers  of  the  Charity  toward  providing  for  his  or  her 
decent  burial. 

If  from  any  cause  the  annual  income  of  the  Charity  shall 
not,  after  payment  of  the  expenses  directed,  or  authorised  by 
the  Trust  Deed  to  be  paid  thereout  in  the  first  instance,  be 
sufficient  to  pay  the  Annuities  in  full,  the  persons  entitled 
to  the  benefit  of  the  Charity  shall  abate  equally. 


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XIL— LONDON.— REV.   WILLIAM   HETHERINGTON'S 
CHARITY  FOR  THE  AGED  BLIND 

Christ's  Hospital,  6o  Aldersgate  Street,  E.C. 

Address — R.  L,  Franks,  Esq.  (Clerk). 

Grants  Annuities  to  nearly  800  blind  persons. 

The  Rev.  William  Hetherington,  a  Governor  of  Christ's 
Hospital,  by  a  generous  gift  (in  his  lifetime)  March  29,  1774, 
enabled  the  Governors  of  the  Hospital  to  pay  Annuities  of 
£10  each  to  fifty  aged  blind  persons,  in  the  hope  (as  expressed 
by  himself)  that  his  example  would  be  followed  by  others. 
In  consequence  of  the  very  munificent  additions  made,  from 
time  to  time,  to  the  original  Benefaction,  by  Deed  of  Gift,  by 
Will,  and  otherwise,  the  Governors  are  now  able  to  pay 
Annuities  of  £10  each  to  nearly  800  blind  persons.  During 
the  month  of  October  in  every  year  they  are  ready,  on  personal 
or  written  application,  to  issue  from  the  counting  house  of  the 
Hospital  forms  of  Petition  for  blind  persons  qualified  as  under : 

Age,  Fifty-five  years,  or  upwards. 

Total  Blindness  for  one  whole  year. 

Birth  and  residence  in  England — to  the  exclusion  of  Wales 
and  Berwick-upon-Tweed. 

Residence  in  the  Parish  or  place  where  the  blind  person 
resides  at  the  time  of  petitioning,  for  the  two  years  immediately 
preceding  the  date  of  petitioning. 

Income. — ^Any  Annuity,  Salary,  Pension,  or  Income  for 
Life  (if  any)  already  possessed  by  the  bUnd  person,  must 
not  exceed  £20  a  year. 


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Parish  Relief  and  Position  in  Life. — ^The  intention  of  the 
Founder  of  the  above-named  Charity  (as  expressed  by  himself) 
was  to  relieve  such  persons  only  as,  having  been  in  a  better 
situation  of  life,  are  or  may  be  disabled  by  blindness  from 
maintaining  themselves,  and  on  that  account  are  or  may 
become  a  burden  on  their  Children  or  Relations  not  in  affluent 
circumstances  ;  or,  having  but  little  of  their  own,  want  some 
addition  to  what  they  have  to  make  life  more  comfortable 
under  such  an  infirmity.  The  Governors,  therefore,  to  pre- 
vent disappointment  to  many  otherwise  deserving  applicants, 
give  notice  that  those  who  have  never  occupied  a  better 
or  higher  position  in  life  than  day  labourers  or  journeymen,  or 
domestic  servants — or  who  have  ever  been  common  beggars, 
or  at  any  time  during  their  lives  have  received  any  Parish 
relief  as  paupers,  are  deemed  ineligible. 

Forms  of  Petition  will  be  issued  only  on  the  assurance 
that  candidates  are  strictly  qualified  as  above  ;  and,  unless 
they  can  prove  themselves  so  qualified,  their  applications 
will  be  fruitless. 

N.B. — (i.)  The  single  mode  in  which  this  Charity  is  dis- 
pensed is  in  the  form  of  Annuities  of  £lo  each. 

(ii.)  Petitions  of  unsuccessful  but  qualified  Candidates 
are  to  be  renewed  annually  in  October. 

(iii.)  Forms  of  Petition  are  issued  only  in  October. 

The  Governors  have,  from  time  to  time,  accepted  the  distri- 
bution of  Annuities  to  blind  persons  under  similar  qualifica- 
tions, from  the  following  benevolent  persons,  mostly  Governors 
of  Christ's  Hospital,  in  addition  to  the  before-mentioned 
number  of  50,  now  52,  from  the  Rev.  WiUiam  Hetherington's 
Fund,  viz.,  in — 

♦1782        31  from  Thomas  Coventry,  Esq. 
1783  I  from  Lord  Charles  Cavendish. 

*  In  consequence  of  changes  of  investment,  the  number  of  Annui- 
tants has  been  increased  in  many  of  these  charities. 


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17^3  33  from  a  Gentleman  unknown. 

'^1^1  33  frorn  James  Whitchurch,  Esq. 

1788  10  from  William  Strode,    Esq.,    and    Ehza- 

beth  his  Wife. 

1789  30  from  Mrs.  Helen  Betenson. 

1794  2  from  Abraham  Gray,  Esq. 

1795  30  from  Benjamin  Burton,  Esq. 

1795  4  from  Mrs.  Sarah  Williams. 

1796  8  from  Richard  Sheldon,  Esq. 

1797  5  from  Clark  Winchester,  Esq. 
1800  %*]  from  Benjamin  Kenton,  Esq. 
1800  115  from  Dr.  George  Harris. 
1802  30  from  Mrs.  Mary  Dover. 
1806  28  from  Mrs.  Sarah  Mauvillain. 
1808          2  from  WiUiam  Mauduitt,  Esq. 
18 10  27  from  John  Baker,  Esq. 
1810  *8  from  Robert  Precious,  Esq. 

1817  18  from  Stephen  Aisley,  Esq. 

1818  I  from  Andrew  Newton,  Esq. 

1820  2  from  John  Neiman,  Esq. 

1821  27  from  James  Hayes,  Esq. 

1821  I  from  Mrs.  EUzabeth  Mickman. 

1822  I  from  Mrs.  Mary  Smith. 
1824  I  from  Mrs.  Easter  Jones. 
1826  I  from  Joseph  Harrison,  Esq. 
1826  21  from  Charles  Pieschell,  Esq. 

1830  5  from  William  Benson  Earle. 

1831  I  from  Thomas  Pain,  Esq. 
1834  32  from  William  Tunnard,  Esq. 
1836  II  from  Mrs.  Mary  Hereford. 

1839  8  from  Miss  EUzabeth  Cass. 

1840  I  from  Mrs.  Jane  Waller. 

*  The  number  of  Annuities  payable  from  Mr.  Precious's  Fund 
varies  with  the  rate  of  Interest  on  Bank  Stock. 


i843 

I 

1845 

I 

1847 

I 

1849 

6 

1851 

5 

1858 

2 

1859 

I 

1859 

I 

1865 

31 

1869 

6 

1875 

3 

1876 

3 

1877 

I 

1889 

I 

1898 

27 

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from  John  Bartram,  Esq. 

from  Miss  Mary  Ann  Taylor. 

from  Harry  Charrington,  Esq. 

from  the  Rev.  Henry  George  Watkins. 

from  John  Thackeray,  Esq. 

from  Miss  Martha  Borradaile. 

from  Miss  Ann  Dupree. 

from  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Love. 
31  from  Richard  Thornton,  Esq. 

from  Thomas  Brown,  Esq. 

from  James  Bentley,  Esq. 

from  George  Moore,  Esq.  (with  a  pre- 
ference to  apphcants  from  Cumberland 
and  Westmoreland). 

from  James  Graham,  Esq. 

from  Charles  Ansted,  Esq. 
27  from  John  Harrison,  Esq. 
40  from  the  Surplus  Fund  formed  of  sundry 
small    Legacies    and    Gifts,    and    the 
Surplus  of  the  larger  Benefactions,  &c. 


Total    798 


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XIII.— lOiVDOiV.— HOWARD'S    CHARITY    FOR    THE 
BLIND,  ST.  MARYLEBONE 

Address — G.  W.  Chandler,  Esq.    (Clerk),  The  Vestry,  St. 
Marylebone  Church. 

Makes  Annual  Grants  to  36  blind  persons. 

Charlotte  Rebecca  Howard,  by  her  will  dated  March-  8, 
1854,  and  proved  on  February  13,  1855,  bequeathed  to  her 
executors  £1000  upon  trust,  to  invest  the  same  in  their  names 
in  the  public  funds,  and  from  time  to  time  to  pay  the  dividends 
arising  therefrom  to  the  minister  and  churchwardens  of  St. 
Marylebone,  in  order  to  be  distributed  by  them  on  Christmas 
Eve  in  every  year  in  small  donations  of  5s.  or  more,  among  such 
poor  bhnd  people  of  the  same  parish  as  they  should  think 
most  deserving,  and  she  requested  that  such  objects  of  this 
Charity  as  had  been  accustomed  to  receive  from  her  Uke 
benefactions  in  her  lifetime  should  have  the  same  continued 
to  them  by  the  minister  and  churchwardens  if  they  should 
think  fit,  and  she  directed  that  it  should  be  lawful  for  the 
same  minister  and  churchwardens,  from  time  to  time,  as 
occasions  should  be,  by  any  instrument  under  their  hands,  to 
appoint  new  Trustees  for  the  same  trust  Fund,  whether 
exceeding  or  not  in  number  the  original  Trustees  thereof,  and 
that  aU  such  transfers  should  from  time  to  time  be  made  as 
should  be  requisite  for  vesting  the  same  fund  in  the  acting 
trustees  thereof  for  the  time  being. 


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The  £1000  was  invested  in  £1043  os.  6d.  Consols,  and  is  now 
represented  by  a  like  sum  of  New  Consols  in  the  name  of  the 
Paymaster-General  to  the  credit  of '  The  legacy  account  of  the 
poor  Blind  of  the  parish  of  St.  Marylebone  in  Middlesex.' 

The  annual  dividends,  £28  13s.  Sd.  (less  tax,  which  is 
subsequently  recovered),  are  received  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morrison, 
the  Rector  of  the  parish,  and  applied  by  him  in  gifts  of  13s. 
each  to  deserving  bhnd  persons  residing  in  the  civil  parish 
of  St.  Marylebone. 

The  selection  of  the  recipients  is  made  at  a  meeting  usually 
held  in  the  month  of  January. 

The  beneficiaries  are  in  practice  chosen  by  the  Rector,  who 
selects  cases  known  to  him  personally  or  nominated  by  the 
clergy  of  the  several  ecclesiastical  districts  comprised  in  the 
ancient  parish. 

In  the  absence  of  any  sufficient  grounds  for  disqualification 
the  beneficiaries  continue  to  receive  the  gifts  so  long  as  they 
reside  in  the  qualifying  area. 

The  Parish  Clerk  acts  as  the  Hon.  Secretary ;  visits  the 
recipients  shortly  before  the  annual  meeting  ;  and  pays  them 
after  the  meeting  in  their  own  homes.  A  list  of  the  pensioners' 
names  and  addresses,  with  particulars  of  their  ages,  means  of 
support,  and  the  amount  of  the  annual  grant,  is  kept  in  the 
minute  book. 

Thirty-six  cases  receive  the  grant  each  year. 


D  2 


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XIV.— LOiVDOiV.— HUMSTON'S    CHARITY    FOR    THE 
BLIND,  ALDGATE 

Address — Ernest  Turner,   Esq.     {Clerk  to  the  Governors), 
13  Great  Alie  Street,  Whitechapel,  E. 

Grants  Annuities  to  5  blind  persons, 

Hugh  Humston,  by  his  will  dated  February  18,  1777, 
devised  pensions  of  £10  each  to  twenty-one  blind  persons 
not  receiving  relief  of  the  respective  parishes  to  which  they 
belong  and  who  should  be  parishioners  of  the  parishes  of  St. 
Botolph  Within,  or  St.  Botolph  Without,  Aldgate,  or  St. 
John,  Wapping,  or  St.  Paul,  Shadwell,  or  whose  parents 
should  belong  to  any  of  the  said  parishes  ;  such  blind  persons 
to  be  men,  women  or  children,  and  to  be  chosen  by  his  execu- 
tors and  the  survivors  of  them,  and  the  minister  and  church- 
wardens of  the  parish  of  St.  Botolph  Without,  Aldgate. 
Appointment  to  pensions  is  now  vested  in  the  Governing  Body 
of  the  Aldgate  Lordship  Foundation.  At  present  five  pen- 
sioners are  being  paid  £14  per  annum  to  work  off  accumulated 
income.  Lightermen  or  watermen,  their  widows  and  children 
(being  parishioners  aforesaid),  to  be  preferred.  If  not  enough 
to  fill  the  said  charity,  from  the  parish  of  St.  Botolph  Without, 
Aldgate,  then  from  those  of  the  parish  of  St.  Botolph  Within, 
then  from  those  of  St.  John,  Wapping,  then  from  those  of  St. 
Paul,  Shadwell.     Preference  is  also  given  to  the  children  of 


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former  residents  in  above  Parishes.  There  is  no  limit  as  to 
age. 

The  estate  of  the  testator  being  insufficient  to  carry  out  his 
intentions,  the  Court  of  Chancery  finally  settled,  September 
1827,  that  the  dividend  on  £1967  8s.  3^.  Consols  should  be 
divided  equally  amongst  five  blind  persons  every  half-year. 

The  present  fund  consists  of  a  sum  of  £2142  7s.  4^.  which 
has  been  invested  upon  mortgage  at  3  per  cent,  and  yields 
£64  5s.  5^.  a  year.  Payments  are  made  monthly  in  advance. 
Applications  for  forms  should  be  made  to  the  Clerk  to  the 
Governors  as  above. 


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XV.— LOiVDOiV.— INDIGENT  BLIND  VISITING 
SOCIETY 

8  Red  Lion  Square,  W.C. 

Address — ^W.  F.  Hamilton,  Esq.  (Secretary). 

Grants  Pensions  to  142  blind  persons. 

The  object  of  this  Society,  which  was  instituted  in  1834, 
is  to  improve  the  condition  of  the  Blind,  resident  in  and  near 
London,  by  providing  them — 

{a)  With  readers  of  the  Scriptures  at  their  own  homes. 

(b)  With  guide-money  when  needed  in  order  to  enable 
them  to  pay  guides  to  take  them  to  places  of  worship,  and 
to  the  classes  established  by  the  Society. 

(c)  With  instruction  in  reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  knitting 
and  such  other  branches  of  education  as  may  from  tirrie  to 
time  appear  desirable  and  practicable,  such  instruction  to  be 
given  in  day  classes  established  in  various  parts  of  London. 

(d)  With  temporal  relief  at  the  discretion  of  the  Committee. 
The  above  objects  are  carried  out  in  the  following  manner  : 
(i)  The  blind  are  visited  in  their  own  homes  by  experienced 

men  who  are  themselves  blind. 

(2)  They  are  instructed  and  entertained  in  the  Society's 
classes. 

(3)  They  are  assisted  in  various  ways  from  the  Samaritan 
Fund. 


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Annual  Subscribers  of  one  guinea  and  upwards  become 
Members  of  the  Society,  Donors  of  ten  guineas  and  upwards 
in  one  sum  and  collectors  of  sums  amounting  to  Five  Guineas 
annually  become  Life  Members.  Each  Member  may  have 
one  blind  person  on  the  Society's  books,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Committee. 

Over  500  cases  are  now  regularly  visited  and  relieved. 
The  persons  eHgible  for  relief  from  the  Samaritan  Fund  which 
was  founded  and  endowed  by  the  late  Dr.  T.  R.  Armitage  are  : 

(i)  Those  whom  a  grant  may  permanently  benefit,  either 
by  enabling  them  to  learn  a  trade  by  which  they  can  maintain 
themselves,  or  by  supplying  them  with  the  means  of  setting 
up  in  business. 

(2)  Persons  who  have  generally  maintained  themselves, 
but  are  temporarily  incapacitated  by  illness  or  some  other 
unavoidable  cause. 

{3)  Persons  incapacitated  from  work  by  age  or  infirmity, 
and  whose  income  is  almost,  but  not  quite  sufficient  for  them 
to  live  upon,  may  have  small  regular  weekly  pensions,  so 
long  as  their  circumstances  remain  what  they  were  when  the 
pension  was  first  granted. 

No  blind  person  of  bad  character,  or  who  publicly  solicits 
alms  in  any  way,  or  has  intermarried  with  one  similarly 
afflicted  (unless  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  exceptional 
circumstances  exist)  shall  receive  assistance. 

The  income  of  the  Samaritan  Fund  was  in  the  year  ending 
March  31,  from  investments  £1013  lis.  from  Subscriptions  and 
Donations  £793  los. 

The  few  annuities  paid  from  the  General  Fund  amounted 
to  £138  in  the  year  ending  March  31,  1909,  and  from  the 
Samaritan  Fund  grants  of  money  in  special  cases  of  distress, 
pensions,  &c.,  were  given  to  the  amount  of  £1500.  This  sum 
includes  a  few  Pensions  already  described  in  this  book,  as  the 
Society  acts  as  a  sort  of  banker  to  blind  pensioners  of  other 


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Societies,  who  pay  their  Pensions  into  this  fund  in  a  lump 
sum  for  safe  keeping,  and  receive  them  back  in  small  weekly 
grants. 

There  is  also  included  in  this  sum  of  £1500  the  amount 
expended  in  the  pensions  of  two  shilhngs  a  week  which  a 
lady  (Miss  Emery)  gives  to  sixty  needy  blind  persons  through 
this  Fund.  Miss  Emery  nominates  the  cases  and  the  Society 
acts  as  her  almoner. 

Besides  this  the  Society  spent  £743  in  salaries  to  blind 
visitors ;  £227  in  Conducting  or  Guide  money,  £28  in  relief 
in  money ;  £113  in  rehef  in  coals ;  £72  in  Christmas  gifts 
to  enable  bUnd  poor  to  have  a  dinner  in  their  own  homes. 
Rents  and  expenses  of  classes,  including  payment  of  teachers, 
came  to  £504 — there  being  about  734  adult  bhnd  attending 
the  various  classes  held  in  different  parts  of  London.  £165 
was  spent  in  teas  and  summer  excursions ;  and  Secretary's 
salary,  rent  of  office  and  all  expenses  came  to  £231. 


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XVI.— LOiVDOiV.— INSTITUTION  FOR  THE  RELIEF 
OF  THE  INDIGENT  BLIND  OF  THE  JEWISH 
PERSUASION 

8  Duke  Street,  Aldgate,  E.G. 
Address — Henry  H.  Hyams,  Esq.  (Secretary). 
Granted  (1909)  Annuities  to  75  blind  persons. 

This  Society,  established  a.m.  5579  (1819),  is  supported  by 
Voluntary  Gontributions  and  managed  by  a  Gommittee.  It 
distributed  (1909)  Pensions  of  los.  per  week  (£26  per  annum) 
to  75  deserving  bhnd  Jews. 

Persons  desirous  of  becoming  Pensioners  of  this  Institution 
must  present  petitions  to  the  Gommittee,  countersigned  by 
not  less  than  three  Governors,  recommending  them  as  eligible 
to  become  Gandidates,  and  accompanied  by  a  Gertificate  from 
the  examining  Surgeons  of  their  total  blindness. 

Applicants  must,  if  not  native,  have  been  five  years  resident 
in  England  and  be  in  receipt  of  no  relief  from  any  other  similar 
society.  Payments  are  made  weekly  and  each  Pensioner 
receives  ten  shillings  a  week,  or  any  other  sum  to  be  hereafter 
determined  by  a  General  Gourt. 

If  any  Pensioner  be  found  begging  in  the  streets,  or  drunk, 
or  guilty  of  other  improper  conduct,  the  President  is  empowered 
to   suspend   his   or  her  pension  until   the   next   Quarterly 


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Meeting,  when  the  case  is  considered,  and  the  decision  of  the 
Committee  is  final. 

Should  any  vacancy  occur  for  the  admission  of  Pensioners 
(which  the  Committee  may  deem  expedient  to  fill  up),  notices 
are  posted  at  the  entrance  of  each  Synagogue.  Petitions 
from  appHcants  must  be  left  with  the  Secretary  within  fourteen 
days  from  the  date  of  such  notice. 

The  Committee  examine  and  determine  on  all  Petitions 
from  persons  desirous  of  becoming  Candidates,  and  have  the 
power  to  reject  such  as  they  may  deem  ineligible. 

All  deserving  applicants  are  elected  pensioners. 


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XVIL—IOiVDOiNT.— NATIONAL    BLIND    RELIEF 
SOCIETY 

Address — Rev.   J.   Pullein -Thompson   (Hon.   Secretary), 
The  Vicarage,  Tite  Street,  Chelsea,  S.W. 

Grants  Annuities  to  768  Blind  Persons. 

This  Society,  which  for  fifty  years  was  known  as  the 
Christian  Blind  ReHef  Society,  was  originally  instituted  in 
1843.  It  grants  pensions  of  5s.,  los.,  15s.  and  £1  per  month 
to  the  necessitous  Blind  above  the  age  of  eighteen  in  any  part 
of  the  United  Kingdom  provided  they  are  of  good  moral 
character.  This  is  not  a  voting  Charity  and  its  business  is 
conducted  without  remuneration,  there  being  no  paid  servant 
or  agent.  All  applicants  for  relief  must  obtain  from  the 
Secretary  a  form  of  application  which  they  must  carefully  fill 
in.  This  form  when  so  filled  in  and  duly  certified  must  be 
signed  by  one  new  subscriber  of  two  guineas  a  year  or  two 
new  subscribers  of  one  guinea  each  or  a  new  donor  of  thirty 
guineas  as  well  as  by  a  Life  Governor  and  forwarded  to  the 
Secretary.  One  or  more  of  the  Committee  will  then  visit 
and  inquire  into  the  case.  If  the  person  lives  out  of  London 
the  Committee  will  require  such  references  and  certificates  as 
they  deem  necessary.  After  investigation  the  case  is  laid 
before  the  Committee  at  their  monthly  meeting.  If  found  satis- 
factory, the  case  is  transferred  '  in  the  order  of  application '  to 


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the  pension  List  when  the  state  of  the  funds  permits  j  when 
placed  thereon  the  case  begins  by  receiving  5s.  a  month  ;  this 
allowance  is  raised  at  the  discretion  of  the  Committee  to  los. 
a  month.  Should  the  subscription  of  two  guineas  be  discon- 
tinued the  pensioner  ceases  to  receive  the  pension  until  another 
subscriber  is  obtained  unless  otherwise  determined  by  the  Com- 
mittee. A  subscription  of  two  guineas  together  with  a  donation 
of  thirty  guineas  entitles  the  donor  to  nominate  a  blind 
person  for  immediate  relief  at  the  rate  of  los.  a  month,  and  a 
subscription  of  four  guineas,  together  with  a  donation  of 
sixty  guineas,  entitles  the  donor  to  nominate  a  blind  person 
for  immediate  relief  at  the  rate  of  los.  a  month  to  be  raised 
ultimately  to  a  pension  of  £1  a  month  at  the  discretion  of 
the  Committee,  who  will  be  guided  by  the  immediate  needs 
of  the  pensioner.  Applicants  gaining  their  livehhood  by 
mendicity  or  playing  a  musical  instrument  in  the  streets  or 
alehouses  or  who  are  in  possession  of  an  income  of  £20  per 
annum  if  single  or  £30  and  upwards  if  married  (or  an  equivalent 
to  that  amount  in  kind)  are  deemed  ineligible  to  receive  any 
benefit  from  the  funds  of  the  Society,  unless  in  particular  cases 
the  Committee  decide  to  the  contrary.  In  the  event  of  its 
being  satisfactorily  proved  that  a  pensioner  has  used  misre- 
presentation in  order  to  get  placed  upon  the  funds,  or  while  in 
receipt  of  the  pension  has  been  guilty  of  leading  an  immoral 
hfe,  the  pensioner  so  offending  shall  be  excluded  from  any 
further  benefit. 

The  report  states  that  during  the  year  ending  December 
31,  1908  the  Blind  received  in  pensions,  special  help,  teas,  &c., 
£4581  3s.  iTd.  Cost  of  postage,  incidental  expenses,  printing 
reports,  advertising  and  other  similar  items  was  £563  i8s.  yd. 
The  funds  were  derived  from  subscriptions  and  donations, 
£3290  19s.  2d. ;  Sales  of  Stocks,  £753  13s.  5^. ;  and  interest  on 
investments,  £70  6s.  8^. 


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XVIII.— lOiVDOiV.— PAINTER  STAINERS'  COMPANY 

Painters'  Hall,  9  Little  Trinity  Lane, 
Queen  Victoria  Street,  E.C. 

Addre,,—  i"  '^-  ^-  PRITCHARD,  EsQ.      ")    .^,     ,  . 
Address-  |  ^  ^   Englefield,  Esq.  j  ^^^'''^'^• 

Grants  Annuities  of  £10  to  180  blind  persons. 

John  Stock,  by  a  codicil  to  his  will,  dated  June  25,  1781, 
left  £55,000  Reduced  3  per  cents,  to  the  Company  of  Painters 
and  Stainers,  to  be  distributed  to  the  aged  and  blind,  and 
other  charitable  purposes.    The  will  appoints  visitors. 

Mrs.  Dorothy  Smith,  by  will,  dated  January  26, 1790,  left 
£2000  3  per  cents,  to  Martin  Smith  ;  but  in  case  he  should 
not  be  heard  of  within  two  years  after  her  decease,  she  then 
directed  her  executors  to  pay  out  of  the  said  £2000  stock 
£500  3  per  cents,  to  the  Governors  of  the  Charity  for  the 
Relief  of  BHnd  Persons  ;  this  bequest  was  supposed  to  apply 
to  Christ's  Hospital  and  the  Painters'  and  Stainers'  Company, 
and  the  legacy  was  divided  between  the  two  corporations. 

Mrs.  Jane  Shank,  by  will,  dated  July  7,  1795,  left  the 
residue  of  her  estate  to  the  Painters'  Company,  to  divide 
the  interest  of  the  same  into  twelve  equal  parts,  and  to  apply 
eleven-twelfths  in  payment  of  pensions  of  £10  a  year,  to  such 
and  so  many  indigent  blind  women  of  the  age,  description, 
and  qualification  hereinafter  mentioned  (vide  qualifications). 
Pensions  to  be  paid  one  year  in  advance,  and  pensioners  taken 
from  any  psirt  of  England. 


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Mrs.  Mary  Grainger,  by  will,  dated  February  i8,  1808, 
gave  £1000  4  per  cent,  stock  to  the  Painters'  Company,  to 
be  applied  for  the  benefit  of  the  blind  men  usually  relieved 
by  that  Company,  in  such  way  as  the  Master  and  Wardens 
should  deem  most  proper. 

Mrs.  Anne  Yeates,  by  will,  dated  March  22, 1794,  left  the 
residue  of  her  personal  estate  to  be  divided  between  the 
Hospitals  for  the  Blind  and  for  Incurable  Lunatics,  share  and 
share  alike. 

Miss  Ann  Rhodes  Syddall  left,  by  will  dated  December 
26,  1857,  the  sum  of  one  thousand  pounds,  the  interest  to  be 
distributed  amongst  Blind  Persons  as  the  Master  and  Wardens 
should  direct. 

J.  Gregory  Grace's  Charity  consists  of  £125  Great 
Western  Railway  4  per  cent,  stock. 

Petitions  are  issued  from  the  Clerk's  Office  at  Painters' 
Hall,  annually,  from  October  25  until  November  26  inclusive, 
and  at  no  other  time,  between  the  hours  of  eleven  and  two 
o'clock,  to  blind  applicants  or  their  agents,  or  will  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  country  by  post  on  application,  post  paid  ;  but 
no  Petition  will  be  given  out  in  any  case  if  it  is  previously 
ascertained  that  the  applicant  does  not  fall  within  the  rules 
hereinafter  detailed,  which  are  clearly  laid  down  by  the 
Donors,  and  from  which  the  Court,  as  Trustees,  must  in  no 
instance  depart. 

Petitioners  for  the  above  Charities  must — 
Be  Sixty-one  years  of  age  complete. 
Have  been  Totally  Blind  for  Three  Years. 
Be  unable  to  maintain  themselves. 
Be  in  distressed  circumstances. 

Have  been  born  in  England,  not  in  Wales  or  Scotland. 
Have  lived  three  years  in  their  present  parish  or  place 
of  residence. 


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Have  no  income  for  life  above  £to  a  year,  or  receive 

any  Benefaction  to  that  amount. 
Have  never  received  alms  from  any  place  or  parish 

as  a  pauper. 
Never  have  been  a  common  beggar. 
Be  of  sober  life  and  conversation. 

The  blank  Petition  furnished  to  applicants  should  be 
attentively  perused  by  those  who  undertake  the  management 
of  the  case,  as  it  contains  all  requisite  information  relating 
to  its  formal  and  effective  completion.  If  such  forms  are 
not  attended  to,  or  the  appUcants  do  not  fall  within  the  pre- 
scribed regulations,  they  cannot  be  successful. 

Unsuccessful  Petitioners,  duly  quaUfied,  who  have  applied 
in  the  preceding  year,  must  petition  again  on  one  of  the  printed 
forms  ;  but  if  the  certificates  of  age,  blindness,  and  marriage 
have  been  filed,  they  will  not  again  be  required. 

The  Election  takes  place  on  the  second  Wednesday  in 
December  annually. 

With  a  view  to  allow  time  for  the  correction  of  errors,  or 
to  rectify  omissions,  it  is  desirable  that  appUcants'  Petitions 
should  be  completed  with  all  convenient  speed,  and  carefully 
examined  previously  to  being  returned  to  the  Clerk's  Office. 
Petitions  will  not  be  received  later  than  one  week  prior  to  the 
election.  In  no  instance  should  the  name  of  the  person  who 
undertakes  the  management  of  the  case  be  omitted  to  be 
inserted  at  the  left-hand  comer  of  the  Petition,  in  the  blank 
left  for  that  purpose. 

On  the  Election  of  a  Pensioner,  a  Certificate,  containing 
a  receipt  stamp  and  full  instructions  to  enable  the  Annui- 
tant to  receive  the  Pension,  is  forwarded,  the  first  week  in 
January,  annually,  to  the  minister  of  the  parish  in  which 
the  Pensioner  resides.  This  Certificate  must  be  properly 
executed  by  the  Minister  and  Churchwardens,  and  presented  for 


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payment  at  the  Hall,  on  the  days  specified,  and  at  no  other 
time. 

The  Ministers  or  Officers  of  Parishes,  or  the  friends  of 
Pensioners,  are  earnestly  requested  to  give  immediate  notice 
to  the  Clerk  of  the  Company  in  case  of  Death  or  Disquahfi- 
cation,  as  the  absence  of  such  notice  may  retard  the  Election 
of  other  Apphcants. 

All  appUcations  by  letter  should  be  addressed  to  the  Clerk 
of  the  Company. 


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XIX.— lOiVDOAT.— JOANNA   RASHDALE'S   CHARITY 
FOR  BLIND  WOMEN 

Address — Henry  J.  Wilson,  Esq.  (Secretary), 
53  Victoria  Street,  Westminster,  S.W. 

Grants  Annuities  to  5  blind  women. 

Joanna  Rashdale,  by  her  will  dated  September  8,  1797, 
left  a  sum  now  represented  by  £1000  Consols  the  income  to 
be  divided  among  six  poor  Blind  Women  of  good  character. 
Before  the  decease  of  Thomas  Simpson,  of  Coggeshall,  Essex, 
the  last  survivor  of  the  trustees  appointed  in  1875,  an 
appHcation  was  made  for  a  new  scheme  which  is  as  follows  : — 

The  Trustees  of  the  above-mentioned  Charity  shall  consist 
of  the  Committee  for  the  time  being  of  Henry  Gardner's 
Charity  for  the  Bhnd,  by  whom  the  clear  annual  income  of 
the  Charity  of  Joanna  Rashdale  for  BHnd  Women  shall  be 
apphed,  subject  to  the  legitimate  interests  of  the  present 
beneficiaries  thereof,  in  granting  pensions  each  of  the  yearly 
value  of  £13  or  (if  granted  to  a  person  having  a  properly 
secured  income  of  less  than  £13  a  year)  of  such  a  less  yearly 
value  as  will  make  up  the  yearly  income  of  the  pensioner  to 
not  less  than  £13. 

Relief  is  irrespective  of  place  of  residence.  Applicants 
must  be  poor  blind  females  of  good  moral  character. 

This  Charity  is  now  administered  by  the  Committee  of 
Gardner's  Trust  for  the  Blind,  in  accordance  with  the  above 
scheme. 

Five  blind  women  are  benefited.  The  amount  of  the 
pension  is  £5  a  year  each.     Payments  are  made  half  yearly. 


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XX.— LOiVDOiV.— ROYAL  BLIND   PENSION   SOCIETY 
OF  THE  UNITED  KINGDOM 

237  SouTHWARK  Bridge  Road. 

Address — ^W.  Elliott  Terry,  Esq.  {Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  1316  blind  persons. 

The  object  of  this  Society,  founded  in  1863,  is  to  relieve  the 
indigent  Blind  of  good  moral  character,  by  granting  them 
pensions,  payable  at  their  own  homes,  and  regulated  in  amount 
according  to  the  following  scale,  viz.:  £6  per  annum  until 
60  years  of  age  ;  £g  from  60  to  80  ;  £12  from  80  to  85  ;  and 
£15  aft^r  attaining  the  age  of  85. 

Candidates  must  not  be  less  than  21  years  of  age.  If  un- 
married their  income  may  not  exceed  £20  per  annum ;  if 
married,  or  widowed  with  children  dependent,  £30  per 
annum.  The  Committee  exercise  discretion  as  to  the  limit 
of  income,  in  exceptional  cases. 

Candidates  must  obtain  from  the  Secretary  a  printed 
Form  of  Application,  to  be  signed  by  an  Annual  Subscriber 
of  Two  Guineas,  or  by  two  or  more  Subscribers  together 
contributing  that  sum  annually,  or  by  one  or  more  Life 
Governors  who  together  have  contributed  not  less  than 
Twenty  Guineas.  Annual  Subscribers  of  more  than  Two 
Guineas  and  Life  Donors  of  more  than  Twenty  Guineas 
have  power  to  nominate  Candidates  to  the  full  extent  of 


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their  contributions  on  the  above  scale,  but  only  one  nominee 
at  a  time  for  each  qualifying  contribution. 

All  Applications  are  submitted  to  the  Committee,  who  may 
appoint  a  responsible  and  independent  person  to  inquire  into 
the  case,  and  report  thereon  to  the  Committee,  who  will  decide 
whether  the  Applicant  be  a  fit  and  proper  person  to  be  placed 
on  the  approved  hst  of  Candidates. 

Persons  gaining  their  livelihood  by  mendicity,  or  by  play- 
ing a  musical  instrument  in  the  streets,  except  in  special 
cases  approved  by  the  Committee,  are  ineligible. 

Should  any  Annual  Subscriber,  having  nominated  a 
Candidate  or  Pensioner,  discontinue  the  Subscription  or 
withdraw  the  nomination,  the  Candidate  or  Pensioner  so 
nominated  may  be  called  upon  to  restore  the  nomination  by 
obtaining  the  support  of  another  Subscriber  of  the  required 
amount.  But  a  Subscription  ceasing  through  death  does  not 
invalidate  the  nomination. 

If  a  Candidate  or  Pensioner  has  used  misrepresentation 
in  order  to  obtain  the  benefits  of  the  Society,  or  infringes  any 
of  its  Rules,  the  Committee  may  remove  his  or  her  name  from 
the  list  of  Candidates  or  Pensioners,  as  the  case  may  be.  Any 
Pensioner  becoming  an  inmate  of  a  Lunatic  Asylum,  Parish 
Infirmary,  Workhouse,  or  Charitable  Institution  shall,  at  the 
discretion  of  the  Committee,  cease  to  receive  the  Society's 
Pension  ;  but  the  Committee  may  resume  pa5mient  of  such 
Pension  on  the  disability  being  removed. 

Elections  take  place  twice  a  year,  in  the  months  of  May 
and  November,  by  proxy,  and  all  votes  for  unsuccessful 
Candidates  are  carried  forward  to  subsequent  Elections.  In 
the  event  of  a  disputed  Election,  notice  must  be  given,  in 
writing,  to  the  Secretary,  within  three  days  after  the  day  of 
Election. 

The  number  of  Pensioners  to  be  elected  is  determined  by 
the  Committee,  with  special  regard  to  the  state  of  the  finances. 


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but  at  every  Election  not  less  than  two  unsuccessful  Candi- 
dates whose  names  have  been  the  longest  on  the  list  are 
declared  Pensioners. 

Pensions  are  paid  monthly,  through  the  agency  of  Honorary 
Almoners  who  may  be  any  of  the  Honorary  Officers  or  Com- 
mittee of  the  Society,  or  other  responsible  lady  or  gentleman 
approved  by  the  Committee,  whose  knowledge  of  the  Pensioner 
will  enable  such  Almoner  to  report  from  time  to  time  upon 
the  circumstances  and  merits  of  the  Pensioner.  Reports 
concerning  all  Pensioners  are  formally  invited  annually. 

An  Annual  Subscriber  or  Donor  of  Half  a  Guinea  has  one 
vote  at  each  Election,  and  an  additional  vote  for  every 
additional  Half-Guinea.  A  Donor  of  Five  Guineas  in  one  pay- 
ment has  one  vote  at  each  Election  for  life,  and  an  additional 
Life  Vote  for  every  additional  Five  Guineas.  If  specially 
applied  for.  Subscribers  are  allowed  double  votes  at  one 
Election,  thereby  forfeiting  their  right  to  receive  votes  at  the 
next  ensuing  Election.  Donors  desiring  all  the  votes  at  one 
Election  are  entitled  to  four  votes  for  each  Guinea  subscribed. 
No  person  is  entitled  to  vote  whose  Subscription  is  in  arrear. 

A  Donation  of  Thirty  Guineas  can  secure  an  immediate 
Pension  for  a  person  of  75  years  of  age  and  upwards,  who  is 
eligible  by  the  rules. 

In  addition  to  the  Ordinary  Pensions  of  the  Society  there 
are  several  Foundation  and  other  special  pensions  of  varying 
amounts,  as  foUows  : — 

The  Queen  Victoria  Memorial  Pensions. — To  com- 
memorate Her  late  Majesty's  gracious  patronage  and  support 
of  the  Society,  the  Committee  have  set  aside  the  income 
of  a  sum  of  £1476  15s.  4^.  4  per  cent.  Cape  of  Good  Hope 
Consols  to  provide  pensions,  the  nominees  to  be  selected  by 
the  Committee  from  the  list  of  approved  candidates,  preference 
being  given  (i)  to  persons  who  have  served  in  the  Imperial 
Forces    of   the  Empire,   or    (2)   to   persons   who   shall  be 


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immediately  related  to  those  who  have  been  so  employed. 
The  first  pension  under  this  scheme  was  granted  at  the  election 
in  May  1902. 

The  James  Templeton  Wood  Memorial  Pensions. — 
These  two  Pensions  have  been  founded  by  Mrs.  J.  T.  Wood. 
They  are  at  present  in  the  gift  of  this  lady.  The  nominees 
are  subject  to  the  same  rules  as  other  pensioners  of  the  Society, 
except  that  at  the  time  of  nomination  they  must  not  exceed 
50  years  of  age. 

The  Thomas  Pocock  Memorial  Pensions  are  bestowed 
as  often  as  the  Fund  will  permit,  upon  the  candidates  who 
shall  not  be  less  than  60  years  of  age,  and  who  have  been  the 
longest  on  the  list  of  approved  candidates  seeking  election. 
The  Treasurer  will  be  grateful  for  any  additional  contri- 
butions, towards  these  pensions. 

The  Hannah  Ochiltree  Pension  of  £6  was  founded  by 
Mrs.  Hannah  Ochiltree  for  the  benefit  of  a  qualified  blind 
person,  resident  in  Newcastle-on-Tyne.  The  nomination  is 
vested  in  Miss  Matilda  Gibson,  and  at  her  death  in  the 
Committee  of  the  Home  Teaching  Society  of  Newcastle. 

The  William  Lowrie  Memorial  Pension  of  £9  was 
founded  by  his  sister  Bathia  Lowrie,  and  is  in  her  gift.  It  is 
for  the  benefit  of  a  qualified  blind  person,  resident  in  New- 
castle-on-Tyne. The  nomination  is  subsequently  vested  in  the 
Home  Teaching  Society  of  Newcastle. 

The  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Lowrie  Memorial  Pension  of 
£9  was  founded  by  Miss  Lowrie  and  is  in  the  gift  of  the  Home 
Teaching  Society  of  Newcastle,  for  the  benefit  of  a  qualified 
blind  person  in  Newcastle. 

The  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Gore  Lloyd  Memorial  Pensions. 
— Eight  Pensions  of  £9  were  founded  in  memory  of  the 
late  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gore  Lloyd.  They  are  in  the  gift  of 
the  Committee. 

The  Wingrove  Pension  of  £6  was  founded  by  Miss  C. 


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Richardson,  for  the  benefit  of  a  qualified  blind  woman  resident 
in  Newcastle-on-Tyne.  The  Nomination  is  by  the  Honorary 
Secretary  of  the  Home  Teaching  Society  of  Newcastle. 

The  Baldwin-Childe  Pension  of  £12  was  founded  by 
Mrs.  F.  C.  Baldwyn-Childe  for  the  benefit  of  a  quahfied  blind 
person,  preference  being  given  to  a  resident  in  the  parishes 
of  Kyre  and  Stoke  Bliss,  or  failing  that,  to  one  in  the  diocese 
of  Hereford.  Nominations  by  the  two  Archdeacons  of 
Hereford.  The  pension  not  to  continue  after  pensioner 
reaches  70  years  of  age. 

The  a.  B.  Gifts. — ^Through  the  generosity  of  a  lady  (A.  B.) 
the  Committee  have  the  privilege  of  nominating,  from  time 
to  time,  two  of  the  most  aged  of  the  approved  candidates 
who  are  seeking  pensions  to  receive  an  allowance  of  15s. 
each  per  month  until  their  election. 

The  Brodie-Sewell  Pensions  of  £20  were  established  by 
the  will  of  the  late  Miss  Annie  Graham  Sewell  to  be  granted 
to  necessitous  blind  persons  :  preferably  to  the  widows  and 
spinster  daughters  of  Medical  Practitioners. 


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XXI.— lOiVDOAT.— SCHOOLFORTHEINDIGENTBLIND, 
LONDON  AND  LEATHERHEAD,  SURREY 

London  Office — i  St.  George's  Circus,  Southwark,  S.E. 

Address — Rev.  St.  Clare  Hill  (Principal). 

Grants  Annuities  to  25  blind  persons. 

Susannah  Bird,  by  her  will  dated  November  10,  1827, 
gave  the  interest  of  £1000  Consols  to  the  School  for  the 
Indigent  Blind,  to  be  distributed  in  yearly  payments  to  six 
BUnd  persons  (not  resident  in  the  School) .  This  sum  (less  legacy 
duty  of  £100),  being  £900  Consols,  was  directed  by  the  Court 
of  Chancery  to  be  kept  in  a  separate  account,  and  has  been 
so  kept  under  the  title  of  '  Miss  Susannah  Bird's  Annuities.' 

Jonathan  Williams,  by  his  will,  proved  May  26,  1865, 
gave  £1000  to  the  School,  the  interest  to  be  divided  between 
three  male  and  three  female  bhnd  persons,  not  resident  in 
the  Institution,  in  the  same  manner  as  the  Annuities  left  by 
Susannah  Bird. 

The  legacy  of  Jonathan  Williams  (less  legacy  duty  of  £100) 
was  invested  in  £1304  7s.  2J  per  cents.,  yielding  an  income 
on  the  average  (less  income  tax)  of  about  £32  per  annum,  and 
the  practice  has  been  to  foUow  the  course  of  Susannah  Bird's 
by  paying  £4  los.  annually,  accumulating  the  balance  to 
be  at  any  time  disposed  of  by  the  Committee  as  they  think 
proper. 

On  March  13,  1882,  £45  13s.  2J  per  cents,  was  purchased, 
making  a  total  of  £1350  so  invested. 


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On  October  7,  1899,  £56  17s.  i.d.  New  2^  per  cent.  Stock 
was  purchased,  making  a  total  of  £1406  17s.  id.  so  invested. 

Edmund  Charles  Johnson,  late  a  Vice-President  and 
Chairman  of  the  School,  by  his  will  proved  February  22, 
1895,  bequeathed  the  sum  of  £1000  (duty  free)  to  be  invested — 
the  interest  of  such  money  to  be  expended  in  giving  annuities 
to  five  blind  persons  who  have  been  educated  in  the  School. 
The  Fund  was  to  be  called  the  Edmund  Charles  Johnson 
Annuity  Fund.  This  money  has  been  invested  as  follows  : 
£346  North  British  Railway  4  per  cent.  Preference  Stock, 
costing  £499  i8s.  yd.  ;  £384  Great  Eastern  Railway  3J  per 
cent.  Preference  Stock,  costing  £499  lis.  ;  the  balance,  los.  2d., 
is  in  the  Post  Office  Savings  Bank. 

Charles  Randell,  by  his  will  proved  May  28,  1881, 
bequeathed  a  legacy,  to  be  paid  after  the  death  of  his  wife, 
to  the  Trustees  of  the  School  on  the  understanding  that  the 
interest  therefrom  shall  be  applied  for  the  benefit  of  such 
persons  as  may  have  left  the  School. 

The  Committee  decided  that  the  fund  shall  be  called  The 
Charles  Randell  Annuity  Fund  and  a  Minute  passed  on 
October  11,  1906,  provided  for  the  payment  of  Annuities 
therefrom. 

The  sum  of  £450  is.  6d.  was  received  from  this  legacy  on 
July  27,  1906,  and  invested  in  the  purchase  of  £458  os.  10^. 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  3J  per  cent.  Stock. 

Country  Asylum  Fund. — There  are  also  five  annuities 
arising  from  this  Fund  which  was  the  result  of  an  appeal 
to  remove  the  school  to  Caterham  Valley.  When  this  project 
was  abandoned,  it  was  agreed  among  the  subscribers  that 
the  sum  raised,  viz.  £803  i6s.,  should  be  invested.  Accord- 
ingly £741  9s.  2d.  3j  per  cent.  Metropolitan  Consolidated 
Stock  was  purchased  and,  on  October  7,  1899,  a  further 
purchase  of  the  same  stock  was  made  on  this  account  amount- 
ing to  £43  IS.  4^.,  making  a  total  of  £784  los.  6d.  stock. 


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XXII.— lOiVDOiV.— SOCIETY  FOR  GRANTING  ANNUI- 
TIES TO  THE  POOR  ADULT  BLIND 

Address — Rev.  St.  Clare  Hill  {Hon.  Secretary), 
I  St.  George's  Circus,  Southwark,  S.E. 

Grants  Annuities  to  250  blind  persons. 

This  Society  originated  in  the  annual  gift  of  £6  each  to 
three  blind  persons  by  the  late  Edmund  Charles  Johnson, 
his  friend  Viscount  Cranborne  (the  Bhnd  Traveller),  and 
several  others,  and  was  thus  carried  on  until  the  year 
1858,  when  a  sum  of  £800  was  placed  in  the  hands  of 
Trustees  for  the  benefit  of  the  infant  Society.  In  1865  the 
Charity  lost  by  death  its  friend,  Viscount  Cranborne,  and  in 
1895  Mr.  Edmund  Charles  Johnson  passed  away. 

As  the  Society  has  advanced  in  years,  its  work,  which  for 
some  time  was  assisted  chiefly  by  a  small  body  of  personal 
friends,  has  gradually  attracted  the  support  of  the  general 
public. 

The  object  of  the  Society  is  to  aid  by  Pensions  of  £6  per 
annum  poor  adult  Blind  Persons  of  good  character,  who, 
being  by  age  inehgible  for  admission  into  Schools,  only  partially 
able  to  gain  a  hving  by  working  at  a  trade,  and  unwilling  to 
beg,  have  no  sufficient  means  of  support. 

Each  candidate  must  be  of  good  character,  not  under 


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40  years  of  age,  and  not  a  mendicant.  Persons  in  actual 
receipt  of  Parish  Relief  are  disqualified,  and  no  one  who  has 
received  such  relief  at  any  time  during  the  two  years  before 
applying  can  be  accepted  as  a  candidate  except  on  the 
unanimous  vote  of  the  Committee. 

All  cases  are  carefully  sifted,  and  recommendations  obtained 
from  the  Charity  Organisation  Society  or  other  reHable 
sources,  before  they  are  allowed  to  stand  for  election. 

The  Committee  reserve  to  themselves  the  right  of  discon- 
tinuing any  Pension  at  their  absolute  discretion.  Annuitants 
become  disquahfied  by — 

{a)  Gross  misconduct. 

(b)  Intermarriage  with  a  blind  person  (except  under  excep- 
tional circumstances,  by  unanimous  vote  of  Committee). 

(c)  Begging,  becoming  street  or  ale-house  musicians,  &c. 

(d)  The  receipt  of  Parish  Relief. 

The  pensions  of  75  of  the  annuitants  have  been  raised 
to  £10.  Six  of  the  pensions  are  given  as  an  encourage- 
ment to  unmarried  blind  women  under  the  age  of  40  who 
are  endeavouring  to  support  themselves  by  working  at  a 
trade. 

There  are  always  a  large  number  of  deserving  candidates 
on  the  list  waiting  for  help. 

Subscribers  are  entitled  to  one  vote  at  all  elections  for 
every  Annual  Five  ShiUings  subscribed.  A  Donation  of  Five 
Guineas  entitles  the  donor  to  two  votes  at  each  election  for 
life. 

Applicants  must  be  recommended  by  an  Annual  Subscriber 
of  Ten  Shillings  or  by  two  or  more  subscribers  together 
contributing  that  sum  annually,  or  by  one  Life-Governor. 

Elections  are  held  in  the  months  of  May  and  November. 
A  small  gratuity  is  given  to  a  clerk,  but  there  are  no 
paid  officers,  or  expenses  for  hire  of  rooms.  The  Committee 
of   the  School   for   the  Indigent  BHnd    allows   the    use    of 


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their  offices,  and  the  Chairman  his  house  for  the  general 
meetings. 

Last  year  (1909)  the  income  at  the  disposal  of  the  Com- 
mittee was  ;f  2483,  including  interest  from  invested  capital  £528. 

The  Trustees  hold  the  capital  for  the  subscribers  only, 
who  can  dispose  of  all  funds ;  this  is  therefore  not  an  endowed 
charity. 

The  Viscount  Cranborne  Memorial  Fund  was  founded 
by  Lord  Eustace  Cecil,  who  in  the  year  1906  placed  the  sum 
of  £500,  invested  in  the  4  per  cent.  Debenture  Stock  of  the 
Great  Northern,  Piccadilly  and  Brompton  Railway  in  the 
hands  of  three  Trustees,  the  interest  arising  therefrom  to  be 
expended  by  them  in  assisting  cases  to  be  selected  by  them 
from  the  Society's  waiting  Hst.  Sixteen  cases  have  been 
assisted  by  this  Fund  since  its  foundation. 


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XXIIL— lOiVDOAT.— SOMERS    TOWN    BLIND    AID 
SOCIETY 

Address — Mrs.  Hepburn-Stare y  (Hon.  Secretary), 
51  Belsize  Avenue,  Hampstead,  N.W. 

Makes  weekly  grants  to  136  blind  persons. 

Among  the  objects  of  the  Society,  which  was  instituted 
in  1864,  are  the  following : 

To  provide  a  weekly  entertainment  (for  which  ^d.  each  is 
allowed  for  guide  money),  summer  excursions,  Christmas 
gifts  and  other  assistance.. 

To  send  lady  visitors  weekly  to  the  homes  of  the  blind. 
(Some  60  or  70  voluntary  lady  workers  engage  in  this.) 

To  give  weekly  grants. 

To  provide  medical  advice  and  medicine  free  of  cost. 

To  send  ailing  Blind  for  short  periods  to  the  country  or 
seaside. 

To  aid  all  efforts  at  self-help ;  to  obtain  and  supplement 
pensions  from  other  Societies  for  which  the  Hon.  Secretary 
acts  as  almoner  ;  to  aid  in  times  of  sickness  and  distress  and 
otherwise  assist  the  needy  and  deserving. 

The  Meetings  of  the  Society  are  held  every  Thursday  at 
seven  p.m.,  in  the  Hall  of  Tolmers  Institute,  Drummond 
Street,  Hampstead  Road. 

The  Society  has  enrolled  about  400  blind  members.  All 
these  persons  receive  regular  or  irregular  aid  in  accordance 
with  the  above  objects.  The  Hon.  Secretary  will  at  any 
time  be  pleased  to  give  information  regarding  the  members. 

Total  receipts  of  the  Society  are  about  £1400  a  year 
(which  includes  Pension  money  from  other  charities  dispensed 
by  this  Society).  Of  this  sum  £600  a  year  or  more  has  been 
given  in  weekly  grants. 


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XXIV.— LOiVDOiV.— SOUTH    LONDON   ASSOCIATION 
FOR  ASSISTING  THE  BLIND 

Address — J.  T.  Edmonds,  Esq.  (Hon.  Secretary  and  Solicitor), 
Carlton  Villa,  155  Brixton  Road,  S.W. 

Grants  Annuities  to  46  blind  persons. 

This  Association  has  bHnd  teaching  classes  (Moon's  type) 
at  Walworth  and  Brixton,  conducted  by  blind  teachers  and 
monitors,  also  working,  devotional,  and  recreative  reading 
classes  conducted  by  friends  at  the  same  places,  and  a  devo- 
tional meeting  at  Kennington.  The  total  number  of  blind 
members  on  the  books  is  160.  The  Association  has  also 
music  classes  and  lends  embossed  books  in  Moon's  type. 
Summer  and  Christmas  treats  are  held. 

At  present  there  are  4  pensions  of  £5  per  annum,  34  of  £2 
per  annum,  and  8  of  £1  per  annum  paid  quarterly.  Occasional 
grants  in  cases  of  sickness  or  other  emergency  are  also  made. 

Sixteen  pensions  of  £2  each  per  annum  have  been  founded 
in  memory  of  the  late  W.  Sopper. 

BHnd  persons  become  members  of  the  Association  by 
election  of  the  Committee  and  must  be  nominated  by  a 
subscriber  of  at  least  los.  6^.  per  annum.  Loans  without 
interest  from  los.  to  £3  are  granted  to  members  to  enable 
the  borrowers  to  purchase  material  for  work,  to  pay  rent 
and  to  meet  other  various  needs,  especially  that  of  clothing 
in  the  winter  months.  The  Association  also  encourages  the 
sale  of  goods  made  by  bHnd  work  people. 

The  expenditure  for  the  last  year  among  the  blind  members 
was  between  £500  and  £600. 

The  work  is  conducted  gratuitously. 


CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE  IN 
ENGLAND  AND  WALES 

PART  II.— PROVINCIAL 


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XXV.— BERKSHIRE.— READmG  BLIND  AID  SOCIETY 

Address— Hugh    E.    Walford,    Esq..  (Hon.   Secretary  and 
Treasurer),  Pattingham,  London  Road,  Reading. 

Grants  Annuities  to  15  blind  persons. 

This  Society  was  founded  in  1893  by  Mr.  Hugh  E.  Walford 
who  for  seventeen  years  has  given  up  his  hfe  to  work  among 
the  Blind.  Its  operations  are  limited  to  Reading  and  its 
totally  blind  adult  poor  of  either  sex. 

The  Endowment  Fund  was  also  created  by  Mr.  Walford, 
who  raised  the  whole  amount  from  his  friends  and  inhabitants 
of  Reading.  It  consists  of  £93  os.  6d.  Manchester  Corpora- 
tion 3  per  cent  Stock  ;  £451  8s.  6d.  India  3  per  cent.  Stock ; 
£1255  IIS.  3i.  Victoria  Government  3 J  per  cent.  Stock ; 
£550  London  County  Council  3  per  cent.  Stock ;  and  a 
small  balance  uninvested. 

There  are  four  Trustees,  of  whom  Mr.  Walford  is  one. 

The  object  of  this  Fund  is  to  place  the  work  of  the  Society 
upon  a  permanent  basis,  and  so  to  ensure  the  future  care  of 
the  poor  Blind  of  Reading.  The  Trustees  are  limited  by  the 
Trust  Deed  to  the  application  of  the  interest  arising  from 
the  seciuities  forming  this  Fund  for  the  benefit  of  blind  persons 
residing  in  Reading  in  such  sums  as  the  Trustees  may  decide 
up  to  £20,  with  power  to  revoke  or  annul  at  discretion,  or 
alter  the  amount  to  each.    Thus  far  the  Blind  selected  have 


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been  paid  quarterly  and  have  received  £5  per  annum  each, 
while  the  balance  has  been  passed  to  the  general  account  of 
the  Society. 

The  total  received  from  the  investments  for  1909  was 
£73  los.  8d,  Besides  the  above-mentioned  pensions  the 
Society  has  augmented  the  annuities  granted  to  the  Blind  of 
Reading  from  other  Pension  Charities  by  grants  from  the 
Annual  Subscriptions  and  Donations  received  by  the  Society. 


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XXYl.—BERKSHIRE.— WOKINGHAM    MUNICIPAL 
CHARITIES 

Address — James  May,  Esq.  {Clerk  to  the  Trustees), 
Wokingham. 

Makes  grants  each  year  (not  annuities)  to  2  blind  men 
and  2  blind  women. 

Sarah  Yarnold  by  her  will  dated  March  14,  1829, 
gave  to  2  blind  men  and  2  blind  women  (not  receiving 
parochial  relief)  £5  each,  those  residing  in  Hurst  or  Ruscombe 
(Berks.)  to  be  preferred. 

The  Trustees  meet  annually  in  the  Town  Hall,  Woking- 
ham, on  October  16  to  receive  applications  and  to  award  the 
money  to  those  who  may  appear  proper  objects  to  receive 
the  Charity. 

Certificates  of  qualification,  signed  by  the  Minister  and 
Churchwardens  of  the  Parish  in  which  the  candidate  resides, 
are  required,  and  must  be  sent  to  the  Town  Clerk. 

These  are  not  annuities,  as  the  recipients  are  not  the  same 
each  year. 


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KXVIL^CORNWALL.— DOWAGER  LADY  ROBINSON'S 
FUND  FOR  THE  BLIND,  PENZANCE 

Address— W,  J.  Bazeley,  Esq.  {Hon.  Secretary),  Penzance. 

Grants  Annuities  to  33  blind  persons. 

Harriett  Martha  Rose  Robinson,  by  her  will  which  took 
eifect  in  the  year  1905,  bequeathed  the  sum  of  £15,000,  the 
income  from  which  is  to  be  divided  to  the  rehef  of  indigent 
blind  persons  being  inhabitants  of  Penzance,  or  of  the  towns 
of  Camborne  and  Redruth,  or  of  the  parishes  of  St.  Erth, 
Madron,  Gulval,  Paul,  Sancreed,  St.  Just,  St.  Burian,  St. 
Levan,  Sennen  and  Ludgvan,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall. 

The  Trustees  for  the  administration  of  the  Charity  ap- 
pointed by  the  donor  are  the  Vicar  of  the  Parish  of  St. 
Mary's,  Penzance,  the  Superintendent  Wesleyan  Minister  of 
the  Penzance  Circuit,  the  Officiating  Priest  at  the  Roman 
CathoHc  Church  of  St.  Mary's,  Penzance,  and  the  Mayor  of 
Penzance. 

Elections  take  place  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  January, 
April,  July  and  October,  and  apphcations  must  be  made  before 
the  first  of  June  and  December. 


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XXVIII.--C(7MB£:2^L^ArD.— HUDSON'S    CHARITY, 
COCKERMOUTH 

Address — Rev.  W.  H.  Parker  (Trustee),  All  Saints' 
Vicarage,  Cockermouth. 

Grants  Annuities  to  3  blind  persons. 

Isabella  Hudson,  by  deed  June  25,  1872,  founded  this 
charity  for  the  maintenance  and  support  of  poor  blind  persons 
of  Cockermouth,  over  50  years  of  age.  The  income  is  derived 
from  £250  London  and  North-Western  Railway  4  per  cent. 
Guaranteed  Stock  held  by  the  Trustees.  Payments  are  made 
half  yearly. 

Three  recipients  receive  about  £:^  6s.  8d.  each  per  annum. 

The  Vicar  and  Churchwardens  of  All  Saints',  Cockermouth, 
are  the  Trustees  and  appoint. 


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XXIX.— DEVONSHIRE,— WEST  OF  ENGLAND  INSTI- 
TUTION FOR  THE  INSTRUCTION  AND  EMPLOY- 
MENT OF  THE  BLIND  FROM  THE  COUNTIES  OF 
CORNWALL,  DEVON,  DORSET  AND  SOMERSET 

St.  David's  Hill,  Exeter. 

Address — ^Wm.  Cutcliffe  Knill,  Esq.,   A.C.A.    (Secretary), 
20  Bedford  Circus,  Exeter. 

Grants  Annuities  to  4  blind  persons. 

This  Institution  was  formed  on  October  25,  1839,  ^^ 
the  foundation  of  the  Exeter  School  for  the  Blind. 

The  Annuity  Fund  belonging  to  this  Institution  is  for 
the  benefit  of  those  pupils  who  have  passed  through  the 
Institution  with  credit  and  are  unable  to  support  themselves. 
There  are  at  present  three  annuitants  on  this  Fund  receiving 
£4  6s.  8d,  per  annum  each. 

The  Dinham  Fund  is  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  have 
been  in  connexion  with  the  Institution  as  assistants.  There 
is  one  pensioner  on  this  Fund  who  receives  8s.  a  week  or 
£20  16s,  a  year. 


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XXX.— DEVONSHIRE.— UAZELWOOD   TRUST 

Address — G.  M.  Frean,  Esq.  {Managing  Trustee), 
Cranicombe,  Branksome  Avenue,  Bournemouth  West. 

Grants  Annuities  to  y  blind  persons. 

James  Peek  founded  this  trust  in  the  year  1904.  It  is 
not  a  charity  for  the  blind,  but  the  Trustees  have  the 
option  of  using  a  part  of  the  funds  for  blind  cases  within 
a  limited  area,  i.e.  a  radius  of  20  miles  round  LoddisweU,  a 
village  in  South  Devon. 

The  Trustees  meet  annually  in  June  and  consider  appHca- 
tions  at  this  meeting  only,  and  fill  vacancies  that  may  have 
arisen  through  death. 

One  annuitant  at  present  receives  £10,  and  the  remaining 
six  £12  a  year. 


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XXXL— ESSEX.— CniGWELL  UNITED   CHARITIES 

Address — J.  Paget,  Esq.  (Clerk  to  the  Trustees), 
Warwick  House,  Buckhurst  Hill. 

Grant  an  Annuity  to  i  blind  woman. 

Mary  Fountain,  of  the  Parish  of  Chigwell,  Essex,  spinster, 
who  died  on  May  23,  1804,  directed  by  her  will  that  the 
money  owing  to  her  from  Mrs.  Fisher  should  be  put  into  the 
Funds,  and  that  the  interest  thereon  should  be  given  to  two 
blind  women.  By  a  decree  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  dated 
July  9,  1813,  the  amount  was  ascertained  to  be  £90.  By  a 
further  order  of  the  Court  dated  August  i,  1816,  it  was  ordered 
that  the  amount  in  question  should  be  paid  to  the  minister 
and  churchwardens  of  the  Parish  of  Chigwell  to  be  by  them 
applied  in  the  manner  directed  by  the  Testatrix.  The 
charity  was  included  in  a  scheme  dated  September  19,  1899, 
for  the  united  charities  of  Chigwell  and  Buckhurst  Hill  (the 
latter  having  formerly  been  a  part  of  the  Ancient  Parish  of 
Chigwell).  The  income,  which  amounted  in  1909  to  £2  6s.  8d., 
is  received  and  administered  by  the  Trustees  of  the  United 
Charities,  and  is  distributed  by  them  to  any  two  bhnd  women 
residing  in  or  near  the  Parishes.  Payments  are  subject  to 
the  yearly  decision  of  the  Trustees  in  meeting  assembled.  The 
fund  appears  to  consist  of  £93  6s.  3^.  Consols  and  is  invested 
in  name  of  the  Official  Trustees  of  Charitable  Funds. 


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XXXIL— GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— ALDERMAN  JOHN 
MERLOTT'S  CHARITY  TO  THE  BLIND,  BRISTOL 

Address — Fredk.  W.  Newton,  Esq.  (Secretary  Bristol 
Municipal  Charities),  Saint  Stephen's  Street,  Bristol. 

Grants  Annuities  to  47  blind  persons. 

Alderman  John  Merlott,  by  his  will  dated  January  14, 
1784,  founded  this  Charity  for  poor  persons  living  in  any 
part  of  Great  Britain  of  50  years  old  and  upwards  who  have 
been  stone  blind  for  at  least  three  years,  are  not  in  receipt  of 
parochial  relief,  nor  common  beggars,  nor  already  possessed 
of  an  assured  income  for  life  of  £20  a  year. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Merlott  increased  the  Charity  by  gifts 
in  1801  and  1804  and  under  her  will  dated  March  10,  1810. 

Richard  Reynolds  further  increased  the  Charity  under 
declarations  of  trust  made  by  him  in  1800,  1804  ^^^  1806. 
These  sums  are  now  represented  by  £3300  Consols  and 
£13,664  8s.  India  3  per  cent.  Stock,  and  the  income  in  the 
year  ending  September  3  1909,  was  £492  8s.  8d.  Pensioners 
receive  an  annuaJ  payment  of  £10. 


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XXXlll.-^-GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—SCUOOL  OF 
INDUSTRY  FOR  THE  BLIND 

Queen's  Square,  Clifton,  Bristol. 

Address — Rev.  C.  F.  Hardy,  M.A.  (Superintendent), 

Grants  Annual  Gifts  to  9  blind  women,  which  are  as  a  rule 
renewed  to  the  same  person  once  in  two  years. 

The  Rev.  Edward  Kemp's  Trust  Funds  were  founded 
in  1856  for  the  benefit  of  blind  unmarried  women  who  have 
been  pupils  at  this  school. 

The  first  of  these,  which  consists  of  £333  6s.  8i. 
Consols,  provides  for  gifts  of  not  less  than  £2  los.  each  to 
such  of  the  above  unmarried  bhnd  women  as  have  not  been 
in  receipt  of  parochial  relief  in  such  number  as  the  Fund 
will  aUow. 

Three  women  receive  £2  los.  under  this  Trust  Fund. 

The  second  Trust  Fund,  which  consists  of  £908  12s.  9^. 
2 J  per  cent.  Consols  provides  gifts  of  such  an  amount  as  the 
Fund  will  allow  to  six  unmarried  blind  women. 

The  form  of  apphcation  which  is  provided  must  be  signed 
by  the  Clergyman  and  a  Churchwarden  of  the  Parish. 

The  form  states  that  it  must  be  clearly  understood  that 
these  gifts  are  in  no  way  to  be  considered  as  in  the  nature 
of  a  pension. 


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XXXIY.— GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— JOKN    WINTLE'S 
CHARITY,  GLOUCESTER 

Address— Rew.  Hubert   M.    Braithwaite,  St.  Michael's 
Rectory,  Gloucester. 

Makes  Annual  Gifts  to  8  blind  persons. 

John  Wintle  by  his  will,  dated  June  30,  1845,  left  a  sum 
now  represented  by  £274  15s.  6d.  Consols  invested  in  the 
name  of  the  Official  Trustees  of  Charitable  Funds,  the 
interest  thereon  to  be  divided  by  the  Churchwardens  and 
Overseers  of  St.  Michael's  Parish,  Gloucester,  on  December 
18  each  year,  among  two  deserving  poor  blind  men  and  two 
ditto  women  of — 

{a)  St.  Michael's  Parish  ;  or 

(b)  The  City  of  Gloucester ;  or 

(c)  The  county  of  Gloucester. 

Each  year  the  interest  (about  £6  17s.  6d.)  is  distributed  on 
St.  Thomas'  Day  (December  21)  to  bUnd  persons  in  sums  of 
£1 ;  15s.  4d, ;  12s. ;  and  los. 

Eight  blind  persons  (five  men  and  three  women)  at  present 
receive  the  gift.  A  list  of  them  is  kept  and  the  same  persons 
receive  it  year  by  year  if  they  apply.  Four  of  the  men  and 
one  woman  receive  £1,  one  man  12s.  and  the  other  two  women 
15s.  4d.  and  ids.  respectively. 

New  applicants  have  their  names  entered  and  take  the 
places  of  those  who  drop  out.  There  is  not  a  greater  demand 
for  this  charity  than  the  supply,  no  appUcant  having  been 
disappointed  in  the  last  four  years.  The  Rector  and  Church- 
wardens of  St.  Michael's  Gloucester  appoint. 


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XXXV.— ^^MPSH/2?£:.— PORTSMOUTH   MUNICIPAL 
CHARITIES 

Address — The  Town  Clerk,  Town  Hall,  Portsmouth. 
(N.B. — The  Borough  Treasurer,  Arthur  E.  Bone,  Esq., 
Portsmouth,  is  also  concerned  in  the  managemen 
of  the  Charity.) 

Grants  Annuities  to  19  blind  persons. 

George  J.  Scale,  by  his  Will,  bequeathed  the  sum  of 
£20,000  in  the  year  1901  to  the  Mayor  and  Corporation 
of  Portsmouth  to  be  invested  and  the  interest  thereon  paid 
to  blind  persons  of  both  sexes  in  pensions  of  £30  a  year. 
They  must  be  of  good  moral  character,  30  years  of  age  at 
least,  in  necessitous  circumstances ;  born  in  Hants,  resident 
there  at  the  time  of  their  election,  and  for  the  five  years 
immediately  preceding. 

The  Corporation  of  Portsmouth  elects  the  pensioners. 


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XXXYL-^HERTFORDSHIRE.— BE^ J AUm  COLLETT'S 
CHARITY,  HEMEL  HEMPSTEAD 

Address — Joseph  Hight  Blundell,  Esq.  {Trustee), 
Herne  Farm,  Toddington,  Beds. 

Grants  Annuities  to  4  blind  persons. 

Benjamin  Collett  by  his  Will,  dated  May  7,  1813, 
bequeathed  a  sum  now  represented  by  £472  los.  Consols, 
in  trust  to  pay  the  income  to  or  for  4  blind  persons  with 
preference  to  residents  in  or  near  Hemel  Hempstead.  There 
is  no  limit  as  to  age. 

Each  annuitant  at  present  receives  £2  19s.  per  annum. 
Payments  are  made  half-yearly. 


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XXXVIL—KENT.-'MRS.    ELIZABETH   DENWARD'S 
CHARITY  TO  THE  BLIND  OF  KENT 

Address — Rev.  W.  A.  Newman  (Trustee), 
The  Rectory,  Upper  Hardres,  near  Canterbury. 

Grants  Annuities  to  12  blind  persons. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denward,  by  her  will,  dated  July  g,  1805, 
founded  this  Charity  for  12  poor  bhnd  persons,  inhabitants  of 
the  county  of  Kent.  The  endowment  for  the  BHnd  consists 
of  £1800  Consols  invested  in  the  name  of  the  Official  Trustees 
of  Charitable  Funds,  and  the  income  arising  therefrom  was 
£4$  in  the  year  ending  December  31,  1909. 

The  Rector  and  Churchwardens  of  Upper  Hardres-cum- 
Stelling  appoint. 

Each  Annuitant  receives  £3  15s.  a  year. 


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XXXVIII.  —  LANCASHIRE.  —  LIVERPOOL  WORK- 
SHOPS AND  HOME  TEACHING  SOCIETY  FOR 
THE  OUT-DOOR  BLIND 

CoRNWALLis  Street,  Liverpool. 

Address — C.  Hartley,  Esq.  (Manager). 

Grants  Annuities  to  8  blind  persons. 

The  Cornwallis  Street  Blind  Annuity  Fund  in 
connexion  with  the  above  grants  pensions  to  such  Workpeople 
employed  in  the  Liverpool  Workshops  for  the  Out-Door  Blind 
as  may  become,  through  age,  accident,  or  infirmity,  dis- 
qualified for  work. 

The  Management  of  the  Fund  is  entrusted  to  a  Committee 
of  eight,  namely :  a  President  and  four  Ladies  and  three 
Gentlemen,  all  members  of  the  General  Committee  of  the 
Cornwallis  Street  Workshop. 

The  vacancies  in  this  Committee,  as  they  arise,  are  filled 
up  by  the  remaining  members  with  the  consent  of  the  nominees 
of  the  workpeople. 

The  entire  income  of  the  fund — arising  from  the  Invest- 
ments or  Annual  Subscriptions,  in  each  year — ^is  available 
for  Annuities ;  but,  in  the  event  of  the  whole  income,  in 
any  year,  not  being  disposed  of  in  the  payment  of  Annuities, 
it  is  competent  for  the  Committee  either  to  add  the  unexpected 
balance  to  the  capital  of  the  fund,  and  invest  it  therewith  or 
retain  it  for  the  purpose  of  granting  occasional  relief  to  such 


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workpeople,  in  the  employ  of  the  Workshops  for  the  Blind,  as 
they  shall  consider  to  be  in  need  and  worthy  of  assistance. 

The  Committee  have  full  power  to  frame  all  regulations 
as  to  the  amount  of  Annuities  to  be  granted,  and  the  con- 
ditions on  which  they  shall  be  granted ;  also  to  make  such 
alterations  in  or  additions  to  them  as  they  may,  from  time  to 
time,  deem  requisite. 

There  are  a  few  Donations  and  Subscriptions  (about  £32), 
but  the  income  is  mainly  derived  from  investments  of  the 
total  value  of  between  £4000  and  £5000.  These  include 
£630  Liverpool  Gas  B  Stock ;  £2000  Birkenhead  Brewery 
Co.  Debentures  ;  £1300  India  3  per  cent.  Stock  ;  £300  2J  per 
cent,  ditto  and  sums  in  Consols,  Dock  Board  Annuities  and 
the  Grand  Trunk  Pacific  Railway  Co. 

Several  annuitants  have  recently  died,  and  at  present 
there  are  eight  in  all  receiving  from  3s.  to  8s.  weekly. 


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XXXIX.— LANCASHIRE.— KENSRAWS    BLIND 
ASYLUM,  MANCHESTER 

I  St.  Peter's  Square,  Manchester. 

Address — ^John  R.  Burne,  Esq.  (Secretary), 

Makes  Weekly  Grants  to  55  blind  persons. 

This  Institution  granted  to  ex-pupils  and  outside  blind 
cases  in  the  year  ending  December  31,  1908,  the  sum  of  £646 
14s.  3^.  as  against  over  £yoi  in  the  previous  year.  The 
maximimi  grant  is  5s.  a  week  or  thereabouts.  The  numbers 
have  been  lately  gradually  reduced  by  death,  and  the  Com- 
mittee are  not  considering  any  new  grants  at  present  owing 
to  lack  of  funds. 

The  James  Holden  Trust.  On  June  21,  1905  a  Dona- 
tion of  £10,000  was  given  to  the  Institution  by  the  Trustees 
of  the  late  James  Holden,  Esq.  of  Rochdale  to  be  held 
by  the  Trustees  of  Henshaw's  BHnd  Asylum  in  trust  to 
permit  the  income  to  be  applied  by  the  Board  of  Governors 
of  the  Asylum  in  payment  of  pensions,  or  for  the  general 
maintenance  of  the  Asylum,  on  the  understanding  that 
poor  blind  persons,  or  pensioners,  from  or  residing  in  the 
County  Borough  of  Rochdale,  or  the  Urban  Districts  of 
Littleborough,  Milnrow,  Norden,  Wardle  and  Whitworth, 
and  who  shall  in  other  respects  conform  to  the  regulations 
of  the  said  Asylum  for  the  time  being,  shall,  other  things  being 


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equal,  have  a  prior  claim  on  the  said  income  to  an  extent 
not  exceeding  one-half  of  such  income. 

This  gift  was  invested  in  the  following  month  in  £2000 
3i  per  cent.  India  Stock,  £1756  iSs.  6d.  4  per  cent.  Victoria 
Inscribed  Stock,  £3000  3 J  per  cent.  Bristol  Corporation  Stock 
and  £3000  3j  per  cent.  Newcastle-on-Tyne  Stock. 

A  sum  is  paid  over  annually  to  the  Rochdale  and  District 
Society  for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind  (q.v.),  and  is 
distributed  by  that  Society  in  the  form  of  pensions  on 
behalf  of  the  Holden  Trust.  In  the  year  ending  December  31, 
1908,  the  amount  so  paid  over  was  £158  12s. 


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XL,— LANCASHIRE.— ROCHDALE  AND  DISTRICT 
SOCIETY  FOR  VISITING  AND  INSTRUCTING 
THE  BLIND 

Address — George  L.  Collins,  Esq.  (Hon.  Treasurer),  West 
Hill,  Rochdale,  or  Miss  Lydia  P.  Kemp  {Hon.  Secre- 
tary), Old  Falinge,  Rochdale. 

Distributes  Annuities  to  24  blind  persons. 

This  Society,  whose  title  sufficiently  indicates  its  purpose, 
has  no  large  funds  of  its  own,  but  acts  as  almoner  in  the 
matter  of  the  Rochdale  grants  from  the  Holden  Trust,  a 
full  account  of  which  is  given  under  Henshaw's  Blind 
Asylum,  Manchester  (q.v.). 

Seventeen  blind  men  and  women  have  up  to  the  end  of  the 
year  been  granted  relief  from  this  fund  in  amounts  varying 
from  two  shillings  to  five  shiUings  a  week,  the  total  weekly 
sum  amounting  to  £3  is.  The  Ladies  of  the  Committee  who 
visit  the  blind  act  as  almoners,  and  pay  the  money  over  in 
monthly  instalments. 

The  Rochdale  and  District  Society  during  the  year  ending 
December  31,  1908,  acted  as  almoner  in  respect  of  a  total 
sum  of  £234  I2S.  of  which  £158  12s.  was  derived  from  the 
Holden  Trust,  and  the  remaining  £76  from  pensions  granted 
to  individuals  by  Gardner's  Trust,  the  Clothworkers'  and 
Painters'  Companies,  &c.,  which  have  been  listed  under  their 
respective  sources.  The  Rochdale  and  District  Society 
supplemented  these  pensions  to  the  extent  of  £17  2s.  and 
expended  about  £20  in  providing  other  pensions. 

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XU.— LANCASHIRE.— ROSSENBALE  SOCIETY  FOR 
VISITING  AND  INSTRUCTING  THE  BLIND 

Address — Evelyn   H.  Collin ge   {Hon.  Corresponding  Sec), 
Blairmore,  264  Rochdale  Road,  Bacup. 

Grants  pensions  to  6  blind  persons. 

The  objects  of  this  Society,  founded  in  1890,  are  regular 
visitation  and  home  teaching  for  the  BHnd,  the  prevention  of 
blindness,  assistance  to  the  Blind  in  the  shape  of  medical 
treatment  and  glasses,  instruction  in  chair  seating,  massage, 
and  boot  repairing,  a  free  library,  and  general  helpfulness. 

Some  years  ago  a  legacy  came  to  the  Society  which,  along 
with  surplus  cash  from  the  general  account,  was  invested  ; 
the  amount  is  £1000,  and  the  interest,  about  £36  per  annum, 
is  paid  out  in  pensions  of  los.  per  month  to  six  pensioners. 
Elections  take  place  half  yearly  in  April  and  October.  Any 
person  who  has  received  Parish  Relief  is  debarred  from  the 
benefits  of  this  fund. 


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XUl.—LEICESTERSHIRE.—mSS  SARAH  BARLOW'S 
CHARITY  FOR  BLIND  WOMEN,  LEICESTER 

Address — Messrs.  Wilshire,  Baldwin  &  Co.  (Clerks  to  the 
Trustee),  i  Welford  Road,  Leicester 

Makes  Grants  to  lo  blind  women. 

Sarah  Barlow,  Spinster,  by  her  Will,  proved  July  17, 
1886,  left  a  sum  represented  by  £3500  Consols  now  standing 
in  the  name  of  the  Official  Trustees  of  Charitable  Funds, 
the  interest  thereon  to  be  apphed  for  the  benefit  of  such 
ten  totally  bhnd  women  of  good  character,  for  the  time 
being  resident  in  the  town  and  county  of  Leicester,  as  the 
Trustees  appointed  by  the  Testator  should  in  their  own 
discretion  think  fit.  The  Ladies'  Committee  of  the  Leicester 
Association  for  Promoting  the  General  Welfare  of  the  BHnd 
recommends  cases  to  the  Trustee.  Usually  the  same  bhnd 
woman  does  not  receive  the  benefit  twice  in  succession.  The 
amount  received  by  the  ten  women  varies,  but  in  1908  they 
received  £8  15s.  each  in  half  yearly  payments  of  £4  7s.  6d, 
The  amount  received  in  dividends  was  £87  ids. 


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XLUL—NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.^GEORGETmLUVS' 
CHARITY,  NORTHAMPTON 

Address — Frederic  Ellen,  Esq.  {Trustee), 
13  Market  Square,  Northampton. 

Grants  Annuities  to  4  blind  persons. 

George  Phillips  of  61  Lome  Road,  Northampton, 
retired  Licensed  Victualler  j  by  his  Will,  proved  December  21, 
1899,  left  his  residuary  estate  to  found  the  above  Charity. 
The  testator  named  5s.  a  week  as  the  amount  of  the  Pensions, 
but  there  were  so  many  applicants  that  the  Trustees  decided 
to  pay  four  persons  2s.  6d.  each  weekly  instead  of  paying 
two  persons  5s.  weekly.  A  scheme  has  now  been  drawn 
up  by  the  Charity  Commissioners.  There  are  a  number 
of  Trustees,  who  include  representatives  of  the  County 
Council  of  Northampton,  the  Borough  Council  of  Northamp- 
ton, and  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Northampton  and 
County  Association  for  Promoting  the  General  Welfare  of  the 
Blind. 

The  property  of  the  Trust  consists  of  £1000,  invested  in  a 
mortgage  on  lands  situate  near  Northampton,  the  income 
from  which  is  £40  per  annum :  this  is  subject  to  a  payment 
of  £13  per  annum  to  the  testator's  mother.  There  is  also  a 
small  amount  uninvested,  and  after  the  death  of  two  persons 
who  have  a  life  interest  certain  other  moneys,  less  than  £1000 
in  all,  will  accrue  to  the  Trust. 


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By  the  scheme  pensioners  shall  be  indigent  blind  persons 
of  good  character,  who  have  resided  in  the  Town  or  County 
of  Northampton  for  not  less  than  two  years  next  preceding 
the  time  of  their  appointment,  who  have  not  during  the  past 
year  received  Poor-law  relief  other  than  medical  relief,  and 
who  from  age,  ill-health,  accident  or  infirmity,  are,  wholly  or 
in  part,  unable  to  maintain  themselves  by  their  own  exertions. 

They  are  to  receive  not  more  than  5s.  a  week  by  weekly  or 
other  periodical  pa5anents  as  the  Trustees  may  think  fit,  and 
the  Trustees  instead  of  paying  the  whole  amount  of  the  stipend 
to  any  of  the  pensioners  may  from  time  to  time  expend  the 
whole  or  any  portion  for  their  benefit  as  they  think  fit. 

Where  claims  are  equal  preference  to  be  given  to  applicants 
longest  resident  in  the  area. 

Each  pension  to  be  granted  for  three  years  and  may  be 
prolonged  for  other  like  terms. 

The  receipt  of  Parish  relief,  bad  conduct,  &c.,  will  disqualify 


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XLIV.-^NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.-CLIFTOWS 
CHARITY,  OUNDLE 

Address — ^T.  S.  Mawdesley,  Esq.  {Clerk  to  the  Feoffees), 
OuNDLE,  Northamptonshire. 

Grants  Annuities  to  2  blind  persons. 

John  Clifton,  by  his  Will,  dated  January  29,  1723, 
bequeathed  £300,  to  be  paid  after  the  decease  of  his  sister 
Elizabeth  Goodliffe,  to  the  Feoffees  of  the  Town  Estates  in 
Oundle,  and  he  desired  that  the  interest  should  be  applied  by 
the  Feoffees  for  the  benefit  of  two  poor  bhnd  people,  parishioners 
of  and  inhabitants  in  Oundle,  the  Feoffees  deducting  los.  yearly 
for  their  agent,  for  doing  the  business  and  publicly  passing 
the  accounts  at  the  yearly  vestry  meeting  held  on  St.  Stephen's 
Day ;  and  the  testator  desired  that  the  names  of  the  poor 
persons  should  be  mentioned  at  the  said  meeting,  and  that 
the  receipts  and  payments  of  the  said  money  should  be  entered 
in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  the  Feoffees  ;  provided  that  if  there 
should  be  only  one  such  blind  object  of  charity,  the  Feoffees 
should,  after  making  the  above  deduction,  pay  half  the  interest 
to  such  poor  blind  person,  and  distribute  the  other  half  among 
such  of  the  old  men  resident  in  Sir  William  Laxton's  Hospital 
in  Oundle,  as  the  Feoffees  should  think  most  in  need  of  it, 
and  in  such  shares  as  they  should  think  proper  ;  and  in  case 
there  should  be  no  such  real  blind  object  of  charity  as  aforesaid, 


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then  the  whole  of  the  interest,  after  such  deduction  as  afore- 
said, should  be  distributed  by  the  Feoffees  among  such  of  the 
old  men  in  the  said  hospital,  and  in  such  manner  as  before 
directed  concerning  the  half  part  thereof. 

The  Charity  took  effect  in  or  about  the  year  1785,  upon  the 
death  of  the  testator's  sister,  and  the  sum  of  £300  was  there- 
upon secured  by  the  Feoffees  of  the  Town  Estates  upon 
property  in  the  town  of  Oundle,  by  indenture  of  assignment 
of  mortgage  on  December  27, 1785.  The  £300  is  now  invested 
in  £330  9s.  6d.  India  3  per  cent.  Stock  and  the  dividends,  viz. 
£g  18s.  3^.,  subject  to  a  deduction  of  los.  a  year,  are 
applied  according  to  the  directions  of  the  testator,  each 
annuitant  receiving  about  £4  14s.  The  accounts  relating 
to  the  charity  are  regularly  passed  as  directed  by  the  will. 
There  is  no  limit  of  age. 


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XLV. ^-OXFORDSHIRE. —KENLEY-O^-TRAMES 
MUNICIPAL  CHARITIES. 

Address — J.  F.  Cooper,  Esq.  (Clerk),  Clerk's  Office, 
Henley-on-Thames. 

Grant  an  annuity  to  i  blind  person. 

Mrs.  Amy  Turner  of  Wooburn,  Bucks,  widow,  by  her  Will, 
dated  January  29,  1835,  bequeathed  to  the  Treasurer  for 
the  time  being  of  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  the  Blind  at 
Henley-on-Thames  in  Oxfordshire  the  sum  of  £100  for  the 
benefit  of  that  institution.  It  was  understood  that  no  such 
Society  as  that  named  by  the  Donor  was  in  existence,  and  on 
March  7, 1838,  Messrs.  Thomas  Gibbons  and  Robert  Colboum, 
the  Executors  of  Mrs.  Turner,  paid  to  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Corporation  of  Henley  the  sum  of  £89  6s.  6d.,  being  the 
balance  of  the  above  legacy  after  deducting  the  legacy  duty 
of  £10  and  13s.  6d.  for  their  expenses. 

The  Corporation  subsequently  made  up  the  amount  of  the 
legacy  to  a  sum  now  represented  by  £170  Consols,  the  added 
amount  being  obtained  from  the  income  of  property  at 
West  Tilbury,  Essex,  being  one  of  the  Charities  administered 
by  them.  The  annual  dividend  arising  therefrom,  amounting 
to  £4  7s.  4^.;  is  paid  in  quarterly  amounts  of  £1  is.  10^.  to  a 
poor  blind  man  Hving  in  Henley  to  whom  the  amount  has 
been  voted.  Under  a  scheme  of  the  Charity  Commissioners 
of  August  3,  1886,  the  Henley  Charity  Trustees  were  con- 
stituted a  body  to  administer  the  Charities  of  the  town  as 
successors  for  the  purpose  of  the  old  Corporation  of  Henley. 


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XLYl.^-OXFORDSHIRE.— OXFORD    MUNICIPAL 
CHARITIES 

(Haynes'  and  Woodington's) 

Address — Henry  Galpin,  Esq.  (Clerk), 
4  George  Street,  Oxford. 

Grants  Annuities  to  6  blind  persons. 

William  Haynes,  by  his  Will,  dated  September  8,  i8o6, 
left  a  sum  afterwards  represented  by  £1266  13s.  ^d.  Consols, 
the  produce  to  be  divided  between  4  poor  blind  persons  of 
either  sex  of  Oxford  or  the  neighbourhood,  for  life. 

Elizabeth  Woodington,  by  her  Will,  dated  April  21, 
1875,  left  a  sum  afterwards  represented  by  £271  12s.  6d, 
Consols,  the  income  to  be  applied  in  the  same  way  as 
Haynes'  Charity,  for  one  blind  person  of  either  sex,  preference 
to  St.  Ebbe's  Parish. 

A  new  scheme  dated  January  22,  1884  (with  amending 
schemes  dated  March  6,  1894,  December  21,  1900,  and 
December  23,  1903)  provides  for  the  Municipal  Charities  of 
Oxford,  including  Haynes'  and  Woodington's  Charities.  By 
the  scheme  five  annuities  of  8s.  to  los.  a  week  each,  with 
a  preference  for  the  Blind,  were  established.  In  default  of 
candidates  qualified  by  blindness,  the  Trustees  may  appoint 
persons  duly  qualified  in  other  respects.  The  scheme  also 
provides  that  any  balance  on  another  portion  of  the  Oxford 
Municipal  Charities  may  be  used  for  the  purposes  of  these 
annuities  or  vice  versa. 

Four  annuitants  now  receive  7s.  a  week  each  or  £18  4s. 


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per  annum  and  two  annuitants  receive  £9  los.  per  annum. 
On  the  deaths  of  the  present  holders  of  these  two  latter  annui- 
ties their  value  will  be  raised  to  £18  4s.  each. 

Applicants  must  be  poor  blind  persons  of  good  character, 
who  shall  not  for  the  three  years  preceding  the  time  of  grant 
have  received  Poor  Law  relief,  and  who  are  unable  to  main- 
tain themselves,  and  who  shall  have  resided  for  the  five 
years  preceding  their  appointment  in  the  City  of  Oxford. 

There  is  no  limit  of  age. 

£91  i6s.  seems  to  have  been  distributed  to  the  blind 
annuitants  in  1909. 


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XLVll.^STAFFORDSHIRE.— ALICE    FENTON'S 
CHARITY 

Address — Eustace  Joy,  Esq.,  M.A.  (Clerk  of  the  County 
Council),  County  Buildings,  Stafford. 

Grants  an  Annuity  to  i  blind  person, 

Alice  Fenton  by  her  Will,  dated  September  25,  1782,  left 
a  yearly  sum  of  £5  4s.  for  some  unfortunate  person  residing 
within  the  County  of  Stafford  visited  with  blindness.  A 
Rent-charge  issuing  out  of  one  undivided  twelfth  part  of 
Cheddleton  Grange  Farm  in  the  Ancient  Parish  of  Cheddleton 
forms  the  endowment  upon  which  this  Charity  is  a  charge,  and 
by  a  scheme,  dated  November  12,  1907,  this  Rent-charge  was 
vested  in  the  Official  Trustee  of  Charity  Lands.  A  body  of 
five  Estate  Trustees  appointed  by  the  scheme  receive  in  the 
first  instance  the  gross  income  and  pay  over,  in  respect  of 
the  Charity  of  Alice  Fenton,  a  yearly  sum  of  £5  4s.  (subject 
to  any  proper  deduction  for  expenses  of  management)  to 
the  County  Trustees  who  consist  of  the  Staffordshire  County 
Council.  The  County  Council  apply  the  sum  for  the  benefit 
of  a  deserving  and  necessitous  blind  person  bona  fide  resident 
in  the  County  of  Stafford. 

The  County  Council  appoint.  There  is  at  present  no 
annuitant  of  this  charity ;  the  question  of  a  suitable  case  is 
under  consideration. 


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XLVIIL—SC7FF0LX.— IPSWICH  AND  SUFFOLK  IN- 
STITUTION FOR  PROVIDING  RELIEF  AND 
ADDITIONAL  COMFORT  TO  THE  BLIND 

Address — ^Dr.  Locke  {Hon.  Secretary), 

8  NORTHGATE  STREET,  IPSWICH. 

Grants  Annuities  to  13  blind  persons. 

This  Charity  was  founded  about  the  year  1874.  It  is 
not,  as  its  title  might  be  taken  to  imply,  a  residential  home 
or  school,  but  a  Society,  the  object  of  which  is  the  relief  and 
additional  comfort  of  the  BUnd  of  Suffolk.  The  Committee 
employ  a  blind  visitor  who  gives  instruction  to  the  Blind 
in  Moon  type,  and  also  in  chair  caning  and  netting  at  their 
own  homes.  Pensioners  are  for  life  if  they  continue  to  reside 
in  Ipswich,  or  under  special  circumstances  in  Suffolk  (i.e., 
if  when  elected,  and  for  some  time  after,  they  live  in  Ipswich). 

The  Pensions  are  paid  weekly. 

The  income  of  the  Charity  in  1907  was  from  Subscriptions 
and  Donations,  £48  ;  from  Dividends,  £15. 


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XLIX.-^C7SS£Z.— FULLER'S  CHARITY  TO  THE 
BLIND  OF  SUSSEX 

Address — Rev.  Charles  H.  S.  Matthews  (Trustee), 
The  Rectory,  Catsfield,  Sussex. 

Grants  Annuities  to  6  blind  persons. 

John  Fuller,  by  deed,  before  the  year  1795,  founded  this 
Charity,  to  be  distributed  to  six  poor  blind  persons  of  the 
County  of  Sussex.  It  derives  its  income  (£60)  from  an  Annual 
Rent-charge.  The  six  annuitants  receive  nearly  £10  each 
per  annimi.  The  annuities  are  paid  monthly  by  the 
Trustees  personally,  where  practicable,  and  in  other  cases 
through  some  reliable  person  who  resides  at  the  same  place 
as  the  annuitant,  acting  for  the  Trustees.  All  the  annuitants 
are  occasionally  visited  by  the  Trustees,  who  are  the  Rector 
and  Churchwardens  of  Catsfield,  and  a  report  upon  each 
year's  administration  of  this  Charity  is  presented  by  them 
at  the  annual  Easter  Vestry. 


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h,— WARWICKSHIRE.— BlRUmGnAU  ROYAL  INSTI- 
TUTION FOR  THE  BLIND 

Carpenter  Road,  Edgbaston,  Birmingham. 

Address — General  Superintendent  and  Secretary. 

Grants  Annuities  to  2  blind  persons. 

The  Henry  Stainsby  Pension  Fund  for  the  Blind 
has  been  founded  to  perpetuate  the  name  of  Mr.  Henry 
Stainsby,  who  was  connected  with  the  Institution  for  over  28 
years  (1880-1908),  the  last  ten  years  as  General  Superin- 
tendent and  Secretary. 

The  object  of  this  Fund  is  to  grant  pensions  and  monetary 
benefits  to  deserving  blind  persons  who  are  in  need. 

The  Committee  of  the  General  Institution  for  the  Blind, 
Birmingham,  or  a  Sub-Committee  appointed  by  them  has 
the  disposal  and  management  of  aU  moneys  given  or  be- 
queathed to  or  received  for  the  Henry  Stainsby  Pension  Fund. 

All  moneys  given  or  bequeathed  to  or  received  for  the 
Fund,  will  be  applied  as  directed  by  the  donors,  and  subject 
thereto  moneys  other  than  those  given  or  bequeathed  by 
way  of  annual  subscription,  will  be  invested  in  one  or  more 
of  the  securities  mentioned  in  Law  XI  of  the  General  Laws 
of  the  Institution,  or  in  Debentures  or  Preference  Shares  of 
Companies  formed  under  the  Companies  Act. 

The  income  from  the  Fund,  including  annual  subscrip- 
tions, unless  otherwise  directed,  and  moneys  specially  directed 


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to  be  treated  as  income,  will  be  applied  {a)  in  granting  one 
or  more  pensions  of  not  less  than  £6  per  annum,  nor  as  a  rule  of 
more  than  £12  per  annum,  payable  at  intervals  of  not  more 
than  one  calendar  month,  and  (b)  in  granting  monetary  benefits 
of  such  amounts,  to  be  paid  in  such  sums  and  at  such  intervals 
as  the  Committee  shall  determine. 

Applicants  of  any  age  and  of  either  sex,  from  any  part 
of  England  and  Wales  who  are  totally  blind,  or  practically  so, 
and  who  are,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee,  thoroughly 
deserving  and  in  real  need  of  assistance,  are  ehgible  for  grants 
of  pensions  or  monetary  benefits  from  the  Fund. 

Preference  is  given  to  those  applicants  who  have  been 
members  of  the  staff  or  pupils  of  the  Institution,  outworkers 
in  the  Trading  Department  of  the  Institution,  or  persons 
enrolled  on  the  register  of  the  Adult  Blind  Branch  of  the 
Institution. 

All  grants  of  pensions  or  monetary  benefits  will  from  time 
to  time  be  made  by  the  Conmiittee  at  their  sole  discretion. 

All  pensions  are  subject  to  revision  annually.  On  any 
revision  the  pensioner's  existing  circumstances  will  be  taken 
into  consideration,  and  particularly  whether  he  or  she  has 
attained  the  age  entitling  him  or  her  to  a  Government  Old 
Age  Pension.  The  pension  may  be  increased  or  decreased 
at  the  direction  of  the  Committee  according  to  the  circum- 
stances of  the  pensioner  for  the  time  being. 

Applicants  for  pensions  or  monetary  benefits  may  be 
disqualified,  or  a  pension  may  be  repealed  or  a  monetary 
benefit,  which. is  spread  over  a  period,  may  be  withdrawn  and 
all  further  payments  withheld  by  reason  of  the  applicant, 
pensioner,  or  recipient  of  such  monetary  benefit  having  inter- 
married with  a  blind  person  or  being  in  receipt  of  parish  relief 
(unless  the  consent  of  the  Guardians  be  obtained  that  the 
relief  will  not  be  withdrawn  if  the  pension  or  monetary  benefit 
be  continued),  or  having  done  or  suffered  anything  whereby 


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the  periodical  payments  became  payable  to  any  person  other 
than  the  original  pensioner,  or  recipient,  or  for  begging, 
drunkenness,  playing  musical  instruments  in  the  street  or  in 
public-houses,  or  for  such  other  misconduct  or  adequate  cause 
as  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  would  justify  them  in 
declining  to  grant  or  in  withholding  the  payment  of  such 
pension  or  monetary  benefit. 

No  alteration  of  these  laws  can  be  made,  except  with  the 
consent  of  a  majority  of  at  least  two-thirds  of  the  Committee 
of  the  General  Institution  for  the  BUnd  present  at  a  special 
meeting  of  the  Committee,  at  a  date  on  which  14  clear  days' 
notice,  of  the  intention  to  propose  such  alterations,  shall  have 
been  given  to  each  member  of  the  Committee. 

The  general  Laws  for  the  management  of  the  Henry 
Stainsby  Fund  were  approved  by  the  Committee  of  the 
Institution,  January  4,  1909. 

The  first  distribution  under  this  scheme  was  made  on 
Monday,  January  24,  1910. 


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Lh— WORCESTERSHIRE.— WORCESTER    MUNICIPAL 
CHARITIES 

Address — ^The  Town  Clerk,  Guildhall,  Worcester. 

Dr.  Corbett,  of  Droitwich,  who  died  in  1906,  by  his  will 
bequeathed  the  sum  of  £10,000  to  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and 
Burgesses  of  the  City  of  Worcester,  to  be  invested  and  held 
by  them  in  perpetuity,  as  Trustees,  for  the  purpose  of  granting 
20  pensions  of  £12  los.  a  year  to  such  of  the  blind  poor  in  the 
City  or  County  of  Worcester  as  shall  be  of  good  moral  character 
and  shaU  have  resided  in  the  County  for  5  years. 

The  estate  is  being  administered  in  Chancery  and  the 
legacy  has  iiot  yet  been  received. 


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Lll.— YORKSHIRE.— BRADFORD   INCORPORATED 
INSTITUTION  FOR  THE  BLIND 

North  Parade,  Bradford. 

Address — Miles  Priestley,  Esq.  (Manager  and  Secretary), 

Grants  Annuities  to  32  blind  persons. 

John  Harrison  of  Bath  by  his  Will  left  his  residuary  estate 
to  his  Executors  to  be  divided  by  them  at  their  discretion 
among  charities  for  the  reUef  of  the  poor  Bhnd.  In  the  year 
1884  a  sum  of  £3000  was  allotted  to  the  Bradford  Institution 
for  the  Bhnd  by  the  Court  of  Chancery  at  the  instance  of  the 
Executors.  The  fund  was  augmented  by  a  further  sum  of 
£970  19s.  5^.  in  1890  from  the  same  estate  and  by  Mrs.  Harriet 
Woods'  Bequest  of  £100,  given  in  1892  by  Sidney  Waddington, 
Esq.,  one  of  the  trustees  of  her  will,  in  the  exercise  of  his 
sole  discretion. 

The  sum  of  £970  19s.  ^d.  above  mentioned  was  made  up 
to  £1000  out  of  the  funds  of  the  Institution,  and  the  whole 
sum  was  invested  on  mortgage  of  the  site  and  build- 
ings of  the  Institution  at  4  per  cent.,  secured  by  deed  dated 
May  1, 1886,  and  made  between  the  Trustees  of  the  Institution 
and  the  Trustees  of  the  John  Harrison  Fund.  The  Fund  is 
treated  as  a  separate  charity.  The  income  is  supplemented 
from  the  general  funds  of  the  Institution  and  is  appHed  under 
the  direction  of  the  Ladies'  Committee  of  the  Institution. 

The  actual  administration  is  in  the  hands  of  four  lady 


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administrators,  who  form  a  kind  of  sub-committee  of  the 
Ladies'  Committee  for  the  purpose  of  election  of  pensioners 
and  payment  of  pensions. 

The  Applicants  must  be  blind  persons  of  good  character, 
who  have  resided  for  the  last  five  years  in  the  City  of  Bradford. 

The  Committee  have  power  to  grant  annuities  for  any 
period  not  exceeding  three  years,  but  they  may  at  any  time 
reconsider  any  case,  and  can  in  their  absolute  and  uncontrolled 
discretion,  either  continue  the  grant,  increase  or  reduce  it, 
or  withdraw  the  same  altogether.  No  annuitant  is  entitled 
to  ask  or  require  the  reason  for  any  alteration  in  or  withdrawal 
of  the  grant. 

Should  any  money  accumulate  in  the  hands  of  the  Com- 
mittee, they  may  grant  smaller  sums  for  special  circumstances 
of  relief  to  blind  persons  not  annuitants. 

Applications  must  be  made  on  printed  forms,  which  can 
be  obtained  at  the  Bradford  Incorporated  Institution  for  the 
Blind.  These  must  be  filled  up  and  signed  by  a  Clergyman 
or  Minister,  and  by  a  respectable  Householder  of  the  Parish 
wherein  the  blind  person  resides,  both  having  known  the 
Applicant,  and  must  be  returned  to  the  Ladies'  Committee, 
who  then  decide  upon  the  eligibility  of  the  application. 

The  pensions  are  paid  at  the  Institution  by  monthly 
instalments.  The  amount  annually  distributed  is  £170,  and 
the  amount  of  each  pension  is  either  £5  or  £10. 

The  Ada  Waud  Memorial  Fund  for  the  relief  of  the  poor 
BHnd  was  founded  in  1900  by  Percy  R.  Waud,  Esq. 

The  rules  of  this  Fund  are  the  same  as  those  of  the  John 
Harrison  Fund. 

The  Queen  Victoria  Pension  Fund  was  established  in 
1897  in  commemoration  of  the  Diamond  Jubilee  of  Her 
Majesty  Queen  Victoria  for  assisting  the  aged  and  needy  blind 
work-people  in  connexion  with  the  Bradford  Incorporated 
Institution  for  the  Blind. 


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The  Applicants  must  be  blind  persons  of  good  character, 
who  are  employed,  or  who  have  been  employed,  at  the  Brad- 
ford Incorporated  Institution  for  the  Blind.  Preference  will 
generally  be  given  to  the  Applicants  who  have  been  employed 
at  the  Institution  for  the  greatest  number  of  years. 

The  Committee  have  the  power  to  grant  annuities  for  any 
period,  but  the  Committee  may  at  any  time  reconsider  any 
case,  and  can  in  their  absolute  and  uncontrolled  discretion, 
either  continue  the  grant,  increase  or  reduce  it,  or  withdraw 
the  same  altogether.  No  annuitant  is  entitled  to  ask  or 
require  the  reason, for  any  alteration  in  or  withdrawal  of  the 
grant. 

Applications  must  be  made  on  printed  forms,  which  can  be 
obtained  from  the  Secretary  at  the  Bradford  Incorporated 
Institution  for  the  BHnd.  These  must  be  filled  up  and 
signed  by  the  Applicant,  and  a  respectable  Witness,  and  must 
be  returned  to  the  Ladies'  Committee,  who  will  then  decide 
upon  the  eligibility  of  the  application. 

The  Mrs.  Lythall  Memorial  Fund  was  estabhshed  in 
1899  with  the  same  objects  as  the  Queen  Victoria  Pension 
Fund  under  identical  rules. 

The  Miss  Hollo  way  Memorial  Fund  has  since  been 
established  with  the  same  objects  and  rules. 


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UU.—YORKSHIRE.—SOCIETY  FOR  THE  HOME 
TEACHING  AND  ASSISTANCE  OF  THE  HALI- 
FAX BLIND,   HALIFAX 

Address — James  Clarkson,  Esq.  (Hon.  Sec),  Solicitor, 
Halifax. 

Grants  Pensions  to  30  blind  persons. 

The  object  of  this  Society,  which  was  founded  in  1887, 
is  to  visit  the  BHnd  at  their  own  homes,  to  give  them  instruc- 
tion, and  when  possible,  to  find  them  employment. 

Six  bUnd  persons  are  receiving  pensions  of  2S.  a  week, 
thirteen  receive  is.  6d.  a  week,  and  eleven  receive  is.  a  week. 


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LIY.— YORKSHIRE,— MISS  IRVING'S   CHARITY   FOR 
THE  AGED  BLIND,  HALIFAX 

Address — George  Crabtree,  Esq.  (Trustee),  28  Lister  Lane, 

Halifax. 

Made  Grants  in  1909  to  10  blind  persons. 

Anne  Irving,  late  of  12  College  Terrace,  Halifax,  spinster, 
by  her  WiU  dated  March  23,  1885,  and  proved  in  London, 
October  22,  1888,  bequeathed  one-fifth  of  the  residue  of 
her  property  to  the  aged  Blind  in  the  parish  of  Halifax.  She 
stated  that  she  would  be  glad  if  it  could  be  applied  towards 
a  home  for  them. 

The  amount  applicable  to  the  BHnd  Charity  under  the 
WiU  amounted  to  £106  2s.  3^.  Pursuant  to  an  Order  dated 
February  20,  1891,  this  sum  having  been  invested  in  the 
purchase  of  £109  ys.  lod.  Consols,  the  same  was  on  March  2, 
1891,  transferred  into  the  name  of  the  Official  Trustees  and 
upon  the  application  of  the  Trustees,  a  scheme  under  the 
Charitable  Trusts  Acts,  dated-  September  22,  1891,  was  sub- 
sequently made.  By  the  scheme,  three  Trustees  were 
appointed,  aU  being  of  Halifax. 

In  case  any  house  or  institution  shall  be  provided  in  the 
parish  of  Halifax  having  for  its  object  or  one  of  its  objects 
the  reception  or  benefit  of  the  aged  blind  in  the  parish  of 
Halifax,  the  capital  endowment  of  the  Charity,  or  any  part 
thereof,  may,  with  the  sanction  of  the   Commissioners,  be 


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applied  towards  defraying  the  cost  of  the  provision  of  such 
house  or  institution.  But  meantime  the  yearly  income, 
after  meeting  the  expenses  of  management,  is  to  be  applied  in 
such  manner  as  the  Trustees  may  think  fit,  for  the  benefit 
of  poor  bUnd  persons  of  good  character,  of  not  less  than 
50  years  of  age,  resident  for  the  time  being  in  the  parish  of 
Halifax,  and  not  in  receipt  of  poor-law  relief,  and  the  Trustees 
may,  if  they  so  think  fit,  pay  over  such  yearly  income  from 
time  to  time,  to  any  Society  established  in  the  parish  of 
Halifax,  for  the  teaching  and  assistance  of  such  blind  persons. 

The  annual  income  of  the  Charity  amounts  to  £3. 

The  Trustees  did  not  make  any  distribution  for  some 
years.  Last  year  they  gave  sums  of  money  or  goods  to  ten 
bUnd  persons  (two  men  and  eight  women),  the  amount  per 
head  being  about  £1, 


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LY.— YORKSHIRE.— HARRIET  HAIGH'S  CHARITY, 
ARMITAGE  BRIDGE,  NEAR  HUDDERSFIELD 

Address — Rev.  G.  C.  B.  Madden  (Trustee), 
Armitage  Bridge  Vicarage,  Huddersfield. 

Grants  Annual  Gifts  to  7  blind  persons. 

Harriet  Haigh,  of  Robin  Hood  Hill,  Berry  Brow,  near 
Huddersfield,  spinster,  who  was  herself  blind,  by  her  WiU 
dated  March  7,  1889,  proved  in  the  Principal  Registry,  July 
II,  1896,  bequeathed  all  her  personalty  to  the  Vicar  of  the 
Parish  Church  of  St.  Paul's,  Armitage  Bridge,  near  Hudders- 
field, upon  trust  to  invest  the  same,  the  annual  income  arising 
therefrom  to  be  distributed  amongst  or  applied  for  the  benefit 
of  persons  afflicted  with  blindness  (at  the  absolute  discretion 
of  the  Vicar  and  Churchwardens  for  the  time  being  of  that 
church).  Without  in  any  way  restricting  their  absolute  discre- 
tion as  to  the  distribution  or  application  of  the  income,  it 
was  her  wish  that  blind  persons  resident  in  the  said  parish  of 
St.  Paul's,  Armitage  Bridge,  and  the  townships  of  Crosland 
and  Honley  should  be  preferred,  and  that  a  distribution  should 
be  made  on  December  21  in  each  year. 

The  net  amount  available  under  the  Will  for  the  purposes 
of  the  Charity  amounted  to  £123  3s.  ^d.  which  was  paid  over 
to  the  Rev.  G.  C.  B.  Madden  who  invested  it  (except  a  small 
amount  of  £20  3s.  10^.  in  the  Yorkshire  Penny  Bank)  in  the 
purchase  of  £100  First  Mortgage  Debenture  Peter  Reid  &  Sons, 


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Ltd.  An  objection  was  taken  to  the  investment  by  the 
Charity  Commissioners.  The  income  from  the  Trust  is  now 
about  £4  I  OS.  The  Rev.  G.  C.  B.  Madden  divides  the  income 
among  the  respectable  Blind  of  the  locaHties  indicated  and 
sends  to  the  Vicars  of  Honley  and  South  Crosland  their 
proportion  for  distribution.  This  year  there  are  only  seven 
recipients  in  all>  viz.  five  in  the  Parish  of  Honley,  one  in  that 
of  South  Crosland  and  one  in  that  of  Armitage  Bridge,  but 
the  amount  generally  averages  about  los.  each. 


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LYl.— YORKSHIRE.— [jmTED  INSTITUTION  FOR  THE 
BLIND  AND  THE  DEAF  AND  DUMB 

Upper  Albion  Street,  Leeds. 

Address — J.  B.  Meeson,  Esq.  (Superintendent,  Blind 
Department). 

Grants  Annuities  to  3  blind  persons. 

The  above  Institution,  founded  for  the  Blind  in  1866, 
provides  workshops  and  industrial  training  for  the  BUnd  of 
both  sexes.  It  visits  the  Blind  in  their  homes,  instructs 
them  in  the  Scriptures  and  reading,  and  relieves  their  temporal 
necessities.  It  has  a  lending  hbrary  of  BraiUe  and  Moon 
type  books.  Pensions  are  only  given  to  local  cases  as  necessity 
arises,  and  at  present  only  3  of  £5  a  year  each  are  granted : 
27  persons  also  receive  is.  to  3s.  a  week  casual  relief  which  may 
be  withdrawn  at  any  time. 


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LYIL— YORKSHIRE. —SHEFFIELD  INSTITUTION  FOR 
THE  BLIND 

57-59  West  Street,  Sheffield. 
Address — Samuel  Maddocks,  Esq.  {Superintendent). 
Grants  weekly  pensions  to  10  blind  persons. 

The  Committee  have  power  to  invest  legacies  or  donations 
to  the  Institution,  or  any  surplus  income  of  the  Institution,  in 
the  names  of  not  less  than  three  Trustees  and  to  apply  the 
income  arising  from  such  investments  to  the  payment  of 
pensions. 

Applicants  must  be  poor  blind  persons,  above  the  age  of 
21  years,  of  good  character,  who,  from  age,  ill-health,  accident 
or  infirmity,  are  wholly  or  in  part  unable  to  maintain  them- 
selves by  their  own  exertions,  and  who  have  been  resident  in 
Sheffield  not  less  than  five  years  prior  to  making  appUcation 
for  a  pension. 

The  Committee  have  uncontrolled  power  and  discretion 
at  any  time  to  suspend,  diminish  or  discontinue  the  payment 
of  any  pension  when  any  circumstances  appear  to  them  to 
render  it  expedient  so  to  do. 

In  no  single  case  will  the  pension  exceed  the  sum  of  £26 
per  annum. 

Persons  Uving  by  mendicity  or  itinerant  musicians  loafing 
in  pubUc  places  will  not  be  ehgible  for  a  pension. 

Investigation  of  the  character  and  circumstances  of  every 
appHcant  for  a  pension  is  made  before  any  pension  is  granted, 
and  every  application  for  a  pension  must  be  made  on  a  form 
provided  for  the  purpose  by  the  Committee. 

Canvassing  by  candidates  for  a  pension  is  strictly  pro- 
hibited. 


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LYllL— YORKSHIRE.— WniTBY  TRUST  FOR 
THE  BLIND 

Address — Thomas  Warters,  Esq.  (Hon.  Secretary), 
Flowergate,  Whitby. 

Grants  Annuities  to  7  blind  persons. 

The  above  Trust,  originated  by  Mr.  Alfred  Hirst,  was  started 
in  1905  by  a  bequest  of  £50  from  the  late  Mrs.  Wray  of  Grape 
Lane. 

The  sum  of  £620  ys.  6d.  was  collected  and  invested  in  the 
purchase  of  £568  2s.  4d.  Queensland  3  per  cent.  Stock  1922-47 
and  £127  9s.  gd.  MetropoHtan  3  per  cent.  ConsoHdated  Stock. 

From  the  above  funded  capital  three  pensions  are  paid. 
There  are  five  Trustees,  of  whom  Mr.  Alfred  Hirst,  who  has 
been  the  pioneer  of  work  for  the  Blind  in  Whitby,  is  one. 

The  Marquis  of  Normanby  kindly  gives  two  additional 
pensions,  Mr.  Alfred  Hirst  one,  and  the  Marchioness  of 
Normanby  one.  Pensioners  must  for  the  time  being  be 
ordinarily  resident  in  the  area  of  the  rural  and  urban  district 
of  Whitby. 

The  pensioners  receive  £5  5s.  each  per  annum. 


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LIX.— YORKSHIRE.— YORK  EMANUEL 

Address — John  Edmund  Jones,  Esq.  (Treasurer  and  Secretary), 
I  Market  Street,  York. 

Grants  Annuities  to  30-35  blind  persons. 

This  Charity  was  founded  in  1781,  for  the  benefit  of 
ministers  of  all  denominations  in  the  United  Kingdom  and 
their  wives,  widows,  and  children  who  are  blind  or  nearly 
blind  or  idiotic.  Payments  are  made  half-yearly  in  February 
and  August. 

The  Annuities  are  never  less  than  £10  or  more  than  £20. 
Applicants  are  to  transmit  a  true  statement  of  their  case  in 
writing  to  the  Secretary  before  one  of  the  general  meetings 
of  the  governors,  which  are  held  at  York  half-yearly  on  the 
second  Thursdays  in  April  and  October.  The  statement 
must  be  authenticated  by  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  two 
ministers  of  the  neighbourhood,  and  must  be  accompanied 
by  a  medical  certificate  giving  full  particulars  of  the  case. 

The  endowment  of  this  Charity  consists  of  £647  19s.  8d. 
Consols  and  £16,000  N.E.R.  Irredeemable  3  per  cent. 
Debenture  Stock,  and  the  income  for  the  year  ending 
December  1909  was  £496  4s. 


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LX,—YORKSHIRE.^DOROTKY  WILSON'S  CHARITY, 

YORK 

Address — E.  S.  Cox,  Esq.  {Clerk  to  the  Trustees), 
3  New  Street,  York. 

Grants  Annuities  to  5  blind  persons. 

Dorothy  Wilson,  of  York,  spinster,  who  died  in  1717, 
by  her  WiU,  dated  January  20,  1710,  devised  all  her 
messuages  lands  and  hereditaments  situate  in  the  City  of 
York  and  elsewhere  unto  Trustees  to  pay  unto  three  poor 
blind  men  or  women  successively  for  ever  the  sum  of  40s. 
apiece  per  annum  out  of  the  profits  of  the  said  premises,  to 
be  paid  to  them  quarterly. 

The  number  of  blind  persons  partaking  of  the  Charity 
under  the  direction  of  the  will  was  increased  in  1819  from 
three  to  seven  ;  and  the  allowance  to  each  person  which  had 
previously  been  £4  was  advanced  to  £y. 

By  a  scheme  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  dated  February  19, 
1834,  it  was  directed  that  there  should  in  future  be  8  pensioners 
each  receiving  £8  per  annum  by  equal  quarterly  payments. 
Persons  benefiting  under  the  scheme  to  be  resident  in  the  City 
or  suburbs  of  York.  The  Trustees  appoint,  and  the  pensioners 
are  to  be  for  Hfe,  subject  to  removal  by  the  Trustees  for 
adequate  cause. 

The  property  of  the  Charity  consists  of  real  estate  and  a 
sum  invested  in  India  3  per  cent.  Stock. 


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LXI.—yOi^i^SH/2?£:.— YORKSHIRE   SCHOOL  FOR 
THE  BLIND 

King's  Manor  House,  York. 

Address — ^A.  B.  Norwood,  Esq.  (Superintendent). 

Makes  Special  Grants  to  20  blind  persons. 

Mrs.  Spencer  Markham,  who  for  many  years  before  her 
death  had  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  Pupils  of  the  York- 
shire School  for  the  Bhnd,  raised  a  fund  in  the  year  1866,  by 
means  of  Donations  and  Subscriptions  from  friends  of  the 
Bhnd  in  the  County,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  former  pupils 
of  the  School  to  estabhsh  themselves  in  positions  of 
independent  industry. 

The  fund  makes  occasional  grants  to  help  former  pupils 
in  times  of  difficulty  caused  by  want  of  materials  or  tools  ; 
also  in  times  of  illness  and  accident. 

The  Mrs.  Markham  Fund  for  assisting  the  Bhnd  was 
invested  by  Mrs.  Markham  herself  in  the  names  of  three 
Trustees  in  her  lifetime,  and  from  the  interest  thereof  and 
from  annual  subscriptions  she  assisted  in  various  ways 
many  of  the  former  pupils  of  the  School. 

In  their  Declaration  of  Trust,  the  Trustees  state,  that  the 
income  shall  be  applied  (on  behalf  of  the  pupils  who  have 
been  educated  in  the  Yorkshire  School  for  the  BUnd,  and 
have  gone  home  to  follow  the  trade  they  had  been  taught, 
and  earn  a  livelihood  for  themselves)  in  manner  following : — 


"4 

By  providing  apparatus,  materials,  or  tools  for  those 
who  cannot  afford  to  buy  them  ;  or 

By  making  small  grants  of  money  to  such  of  the  pupils 
as  are  well  reported  of  by  the  clergyman  in  whose  parish 
he  or  she  may  reside,  as  a  recognition  of  industrious  habits 
and  good  conduct ;  or 

By  affording  assistance  in  any  case  of  sickness  or  accident. 

The  Trust  Fund  consists  of  £800  invested  in  N.E.R. 
Preference  Stock. 

The  Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind,  which  was  founded 
in  1833,  has  no  Pension  Fund,  but  makes  the  above  special 
grants  to  former  pupils,  aged,  and  other  blind  persons  to 
meet  circumstances  of  special  difficulty.  They  are  in  no 
sense  pensions  or  annual  grants,  and  when  any  such  grant  is 
renewed  the  circumstances  are  carefully  reviewed  upon  a 
distinct  and  new  appHcation. 

A  resolution  is  passed  annually  at  the  meeting  of  Governors 
as  follows : — 

*  That  until  the  next  Annual  Meeting,  to  the  extent  of 
£200,  the  Committee  are  empowered,  through  the 
Markham  Fund  and  otherwise,  to  benefit  former 
pupils  working  in  their  own  homes,  and  distressed 
or  aged  bhnd  men  and  women  in  Yorkshire : ' 
and  it  is  under  the  authority  of  this  Annual  Resolution  that 
the  special  Grants  are  made  throughout  the  year. 

Applications  for  grants  may  be  made  to  the  Very  Rev.  the 
Dean  of  York,  and  forms  for  this  purpose  may  be  obtained 
from  the  Superintendent  of  the  School. 

The  amount  distributed  from  the  Markham  Fund  last 
year  was  £36  4s.  iid. 


I« 


LXU.—CARMARTHENSHIRE.-^ARMARTHENSmRE 
BLIND  RELIEF  SOCIETY 

36  Spilman  Street,  Carmarthen. 

Address — Mrs.  E.  R.  Williams  {Hon.  Treasurer  and  Secretary) . 
Grants  Annuities  to  23  blind  persons. 

This  Society  was  founded  in  i860  by  the  late  Mrs.  Naomi 
Morgan.  It  received  a  legacy  of  £50  under  the  wiU  of 
Evan  Vaughan  dated  March  27,  1891.  It  is,  however,  sup- 
ported almost  entirely  by  voluntary  subscriptions,  and  has  at 
present  9  pensioners  receiving  5s.  monthly  (£3  per  annum), 
14  pensioners  receiving  2S.  6d.  monthly  {£1  10s.  per  annum). 

The  Society  has  also  during  the  past  year  been  enabled  to 
benefit  16  blind  persons  in  the  Borough  of  Carmarthen  by 
gifts  of  blankets,  clothing,  coal,  &c.  Applicants  for  Pensions 
must  be  resident  in  the  county  of  Carmarthen,  blind,  in 
poverty,  and  of  good  character. 

A  gratuity  of  a  few  shiUings  is  given  to  each  pensioner 
every  Christmas. 

If  funds  admit,  the  pensions  of  those  receiving  2S.  6d.  a 
month  are  increased  to  5s. 

The  total  income  of  the  Charity  last  year  was  £54  6s.  ^d. 


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LXUI.—GLAMORGANSHTRE.---CARDIFF  INSTITUTE 
FOR  THE  BLIND 

Glossop  Road,  Cardiff. 

Address — David  A.  R.  Jeffrey,  Esq.  [Secretary). 

Grants  Annuities  to  7  blind  persons. 

Miss  Shand,  Foundress  of  the  above  institution,  formed 
the  Shand  Memorial  Fund  in  1886.  She  left  £1000  in  the 
hands  of  its  Trustees  to  be  expended  in  small  pensions  of 
not  less  than  £5  nor  more  than  £10  per  annum.  Applicants 
must  be  of  good  character  and  at  work  in  the  institution. 

Seven  annuitants  receive  25s.  a  quarter. 


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LXIV.— PEMBROKESHIRE.— FEMBROKESUIRE 
BLIND  RELIEF  SOCIETY,  HAVERFORDWEST 

Address — ^Miss  M.  Evans  (Hon.  Sec.  and  Treasurer), 
5  Hill  Street,  Haverfordwest. 

Grants  Annuities  to  i8  blind  persons. 

This  charity  was  founded  in  1861.  Applicants  must  live  in 
Pembrokeshire  and  be  recommended  by  the  clergyman  or 
the  district  visitor  of  the  Parish.  They  must  be  blind,  aged, 
and  unable  to  support  themselves. 

The  Annuitants  receive  5s.  per  month.  The  income  of  the 
charity  is  derived  from  subscriptions,  and  has  been  hitherto 
under  £60. 


CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE 
IN  IRELAND 


121 


LXV.— IRELAND.— BELFAST    SOCIETY    FOR    HOME 
MISSION  WORK  AMONG  THE  BLIND   IN    IRELAND 

Address — ^The  Secretary,  Home  for  the  Blind, 
Cliftonville,  Belfast. 

Grants  Fortnightly  Allowances  to  27  blind  persons. 

The  object  of  this  Society,  which  was  founded  by  its 
President,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Pim,  in  1891,  is  to  benefit  the  Blind  in 
whatever  way  may  appear  most  suitable  to  the  Committee. 
There  are  increasing  numbers  of  blind  persons  on  the  roll, 
500  at  present.  The  BUnd  are  visited  in  their  own  homes, 
taught  to  read  and  write  in  Braille  type,  and  are  helped 
by  small  loans  and  coal  tickets,  and  books  are  provided  for 
their  use.     Knitting  orders  are  obtained. 

The  Association  maintains  a  Home  for  the  Blind. 

No  yearly  pensions  have  hitherto  been  given  by  the  Society, 
but  allowances  are  given  fortnightly  to  those  cases  which 
the  district  missionaries  find  worthy  of  relief.  These  allow- 
ances in  no  case  amount  to  more  than  5s.  fortnightly. 

These  amounts  are  subject  to  considerable  variation,  as 
for  various  reasons  the  allowances  may  be  suspended  or 
cease  according  to  the  discretion  of  the  President  and  the 
members  of  the  Committee,  who  receive  the  reports  of  the 
missionaries  on  each  case  at  a  weekly  meeting,  and  act  as 
they  think  best  for  the  benefit  of  those  they  seek  to  aid. 

£85  los.  was  expended  in  weekly  allowances  in  1909. 


122 


LXVI.—/i?EL^iVZ).— ASSOCIATION   FOR   RELIEF   OF 
INDIGENT  BLIND  AND  LENDING  LIBRARY,  DUBLIN 

Address — ^William  Perrin,  Esq.  (Hon.  Secretary),  50  Lower 
Sackville  Street,  Dublin. 

Grants  Weekly  Gratuities  to  18  blind  persons. 

This  Association  was  founded  by  the  late  Miss  Pettigrew 
in  Marlborough  Street  in  1857. 

The  Blind  are  visited  in  their  own  homes,  and  meet  every 
Monday,  at  i  o'clock,  at  the  office  of  the  Association  for  a 
meal  and  to  receive  their  weekly  donations,  or  the  advances 
required  by  those  of  them  who  are  basket  makers  to  purchase 
osiers. 

A  Christmas  dinner  is  given  to  the  BHnd. 

The  Lending  Library  is  open  every  Monday  from  12  to 
2  o'clock,  when  either  the  Hon.  Secretary  or  the  Librarian  is 
present.  This  Library  is  available  for  all  bhnd  persons ;  it  is 
free  to  those  who  are  poor,  and  is  open  to  others  on  payment 
of  a  small  subscription.  The  Library  contains  a  considerable 
number  of  sacred  and  secular  volumes  in  Braille  and  Moon 
type. 

The  Home  Teacher,  who  teaches  the  BHnd  to  read  and 
write  in  their  own  homes,  can  also  teach  them  type-writing, 
to  enable  them  to  communicate  with  their  friends  in  ordinary 
type. 

Any  Subscriber  can  recommend  a  blind  man  or  woman 
(not  a  mendicant)  as  worthy  to  become  a  recipient  of  the 
weekly  gratuities.  Particulars  of  the  case  should  be  sent 
to  the  Honorary  Secretary,  and  if  suitable  and  deserving, 
help  will  be  willingly  given. 

Numbers  have  lately  much  increased.  ;fi22  2s.  wa§ 
spent  in  weekly  gratuities  in  igo8. 


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LXVIL—71?£:L.4iVD.— NATIONAL  INSTITUTION  AND 
MOLYNEUX  ASYLUM  FOR  THE  FEMALE  BLIND 
OF  IRELAND,  LEESON  PARK,  DUBLIN 

Address — Homan  N.  Fossitt,  Esq.  (Secretary). 

Grants  an  Annuity  to  i  blind  woman. 

This  Institution,  founded  in  1815,  is  a  School  for  the  young 
and  a  Home  for  the  aged  Protestant  female  Blind  of  Ireland. 

The  Executive  does  not  as  a  rule  grant  pensions  nor  has 
the  Institution  any  special  Fund  for  the  purpose.  Some  time 
ago  one  of  the  inmates  left  to  reside  with  her  friends  under 
special  circumstances  and  the  Trustees  allow  her  ;fi2  per 
annum  to  help  towards  her  support.  It  is  paid  out  of  the 
General  Fund. 


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LXVllL—IRELAND.—ST.    JOSEPH'S    ASYLUM    AND 
SCHOOL  FOR  MALE  BLIND,  DRUMCONDRA,  DUBLIN 

Address — John  D.  Joyce,  Esq.  (Manager). 

Grants  a  pension  to  i  hlind  man. 

This  institution  (R.  C.)  founded  in  1859  consists  of  a  School 
for  blind  boys  and  workshops. 

Two  blind  men  are  receiving  monthly  allowances  from  the 
Institution. 


CHARITIES  WHOSE  OFFICES  ARE 
IN  SCOTLAND 


127 


LXIX.—SC0rLi4iVD.— WEBSTER   AND   DAVIDSON 
MORTIFICATION,  DUNDEE 

Address — ^The  Factor,  Dundee. 

Inspector  for  the  Fund.— Mr.  John  Galt,  Dundee. 

Grants  Annuities  to  52  blind  persons. 

This  mortification  consists  of  about  £16,000,  and  the 
interest  thereon  is  applied  half  in  bursaries  for  the  education 
of  blind  children  and  half  in  annuities  to  bUnd  persons 
21  years  of  age  and  upwards.  All  Blind  residing  within  a 
three-miles'  radius  of  Dundee  are  eligible  if  not  in  receipt  of 
an  income  exceeding  £20  per  annum  or  Parochial  relief. 
Thirty-seven  persons  receive  £5  per  annum  and  15  £10  per 
annum.  Ten  of  the  37  are  in  the  local  Institution  for  the 
BUnd,  Magdalen  Green,  Dundee,  which  was  founded  in  1869. 

Note. — There  are  other  Funds  for  which  the  Blind  of  Dundee  axe 
eligible,  viz.,  Miss  Symers'  Fund  for  Indigent  Females  resident  in  the 
town  or  parish  of  Dundee;  the  Mrs.  Margaret  Petrie  or  Morton  Fund 
for  the  maintenance  of  Aged  and  Indigent  Persons  belonging  to  the 
town  or  parish  of  Dundee;  also  the  Johnstone  and  Hospital  Fund. 
The  latter  is  a  Town  Fund  for  needy  and  deserving  cases  from 
which  they  get  6s.  monthly;  the  Town  Councillors  appoint  in 
November  and  the  City  Chamberlain  pays  the  pensioners.  There 
are  one  or  two  similar  smaller  mortifications.  Many  of  the  BUnd  of 
Dundee  receive  help  from  these  Funds,  which  are  not  specially  for 
blind  people. 

The  Dundee  Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind  (Superintendent,  Mr. 
A.  J.  Maltman,  23  Castle  Street,  Dundee),  instituted  in  1879,  watches 
over  the  interests  of  the  local  Blind  and  procures  assistance  for  them 
from  the  above  sources.     It  has  no  pension  fund  of  its  own. 


128 


LXX.— SCOTLAND.— MRS.  JANE  STOBIE  CLARK 
FUND,  EDINBURGH 

Address — ^Messrs.  Fyfe,  Ireland  &  Co.,  W.S.  {Agents  for  the 
Trustees),  71  Hanover  Street,  Edinburgh. 

Grants  Annuities  to  30  blind  women. 

The  object  of  this  Fund,  which  was  estabHshed  in  1885, 
is  to  assist  bHnd  females  requiring  help,  by  means  of  pensions 
of  £5  a  year.  Application  must  be  by  schedule  to  be  obtained 
from  the  Agents.  Elections  take  place  annually  in  November. 
The  management  is  by  Trustees  and  the  income,  which  is 
derived  from  invested  funds,  is  about  £140  per  annum. 

Messrs.  Fyfe,  Ireland  &  Co.  state  that  this  is  a  private  Trust 
and  that  at  present  there  are  30  annuitants  on  the  list  at  the 
rate  of  £5  per  annum  payable  half-yearly. 


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LXXI.—SCOrL^ATZ).— EDINBURGH  AND  SOUTH-EAST 
OF  SCOTLAND  SOCIETY  FOR  TEACHING  THE 
BLIND  TO  READ 

Jamieson  Fund  for  Pensions. 

Address — Messrs.  J.  &  H.  M'Kerrell  Brown  &  Gray,  C.A. 
(Secretaries),  14  Rutland  Square,  Edinburgh. 

Grants  Annuities  to  48  blind  persons. 

Andrew  Jamieson  and  his  sister  Elizabeth  Jamieson, 
of  34  Howe  Street,  Edinburgh,  founded  this  Fund,  and 
gifted  to  the  Society  the  residue  of  their  Estate  to  be 
expended  in  Pensions  or  in  other  ways  amehorating  the 
condition  of  the  BHnd. 

Apphcants  must  be  resident  in  Edinburgh  or  the  South- 
Eastem  District  of  Scotland.  Payments  are  made  half- 
yearly  at  Whitsunday  and  Martinmas  at  the  rate  of  £8  per 
annum. 


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LXXIL— SCOTLAND.— ROYAL  BLIND  ASYLUM  AND 
SCHOOL,  EDINBURGH 

Address — George  Stott  (Manager),  58  Nicolson   Street, 
Edinburgh. 

Grants  Annuities  or  Outdoor  Allowances  to  138  blind  persons. 

This  Institution,  founded  1793,  and  incorporated  by 
Royal  Charter  in  1898,  has  Workshops  and  a  Factory  in 
Nicolson  Street  and  Schools  at  West  Craigmillar.  It  grants 
II  Pensions  of  £6,  13  of  £5,  42  of  £4,  and  72  of  £3.  One 
Pension  of  £S  is  also  given  jointly  to  a  family  of  three  blind 
persons.  AppHcations  must  be  made  to  the  Secretary  in 
March.  The  pensions  are  confined  to  blind  persons  in 
Scotland,  not  being  beneficiaries  of  any  Institution  for  the 
Blind.  The  management  is  by  Board  of  19  Directors,  12 
elected  by  contributors  and  one  each  by  seven  public 
bodies. 


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LXXllL— SCOTLAND.— MISSION  TO  THE  OUTDOOR 
BLIND  FOR  GLASGOW  AND  THE  WEST  OF 
SCOTLAND 

221  Buchanan  Street,  Glasgow. 

Address — ^J.  Frew  Bryden,  Esq.  (Superintendent). 

Grants  regular  monthly  aliments  to  about  80  blind  persons. 

The  objects  of  this  Association,  which  was  instituted  in 
1859,  ^^^  ^o  seek  out  and  visit  the  Blind  at  their  own  homes, 
to  teach  them  to  read  and  supply  them  with  books  in 
raised  types  from  a  Free  Lending  Library,  to  assist  those  who 
are  able  to  Work  to  find  employment,  to  give  Grants  of 
money  to  suitable  applicants  to  enable  them  to  commence 
trading  on  their  own  account,  and  to  reheve  the  Aged  and 
Infirm  by  provision  of  monthly  aliments  and  other  needed 
helps. 

The  Mission  visits  and  helps  the  Blind  in  the  City  of 
Glasgow  and  the  Counties  of  Lanark,  Renfrew,  Ayr,  Dum- 
barton, Bute  and  Argyll. 

1627  blind  persons  are  under  the  care  of  the  Mission ;  834 
of  these  are  in  the  City  of  Glasgow,  and  793  in  the  different 
counties  visited. 

There  are  Six  Missionary  Teachers,  two  of  whom  are 
blind,  who  are  regularly  engaged  under  the  direction  of  a 
Superintendent  in  canying  out  the  above  objects. 

A  Free  Library  of  about  6000  volumes  in  Moon  and  Braille 

K  2 


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types  is  available  to  all  the  Blind  within  the  area  of 
operations. 

The  sum  of  £375  18s.  was  disbursed  during  the  past  year 
in  aliments  paid  monthly.  These  allowances  are  given  for 
periods  of  six  months  and  are  revised  by  the  Committee  half- 
yearly.  The  Missionaries  are  in  close  touch  with  each  case 
and  know  the  circumstances.  The  amount  expended  comes 
partly  from  invested  funds  and  partly  from  ordinary  income. 
Legacies  are  largely  used  in  meeting  this  and  other  ordinary 
expenditure. 

The  Ladies'  Auxiliary  was  founded  about  the  year  1864 
in  connexion  with  this  Mission. 

The  objects  of  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  are  to  promote  industrial 
employment  among  poor  blind  females  by  teaching  knitting, 
&c.,  supplying  material,  and  assisting  to  procure  or  sell  work. 
It  visits,  reads  to,  and  otherwise  aids  blind  women.  It 
expended  the  sum  of  £284  19s.  during  the  year  in  relief.  This 
was  given  in  amounts  of  3s.  to  5s.  per  month  to  women 
only,  most  of  whom  are  engaged  in  doing  a  little  knitting, 
and  is  meant  as  a  small  supplement  to  very  slender  incomes. 

These  amounts  are  not  looked  upon  as  Pensions,  though 
usually  continued  if  circumstances  require  it. 


INDEX 

TO 

ANNUITIES  TO  THE  BLIND 


INDEX 


A.  B.  Gifts,  54 

Abatement  of  Annuities  in  event  of  funds  being  Insufi&cient,  provision 

for — Hon.  Frances  Harley's  Charity,  27 
Acton,  Hannah — Gift  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust  for  poor 

blind  persons,  11 
Age  of  Annuitants — 45-67 — Association  for  promoting  the  General 

Welfare  of  the  Blind,  3 
Age    Qualification — Requirements  of  Charities 

18  and  upwards — National  Blind  Relief  Society,  43 
21  and  upwards — 

Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  50 
Shefl&eld  Institution  for  the  Blind,  109 
Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  Dundee,  127 
21  and  upwards,  with  preference  for  older  applicants — Blind  Man's 

Friend  or  Day's  Charity,  8 
30  and  upwards — Portsmouth  Municipal  Charities,  76 
35 — Persons  required  to  be  over  35  and  to  have  lost  their  sight 
after  their  20th  year — Miss  E.  R.  Lord's  bequest  to  Gardner's 
Trust,  20 
40  under — 

Society   for  granting  Annuities  to  the   Poor  Adult  Blind, 
unmarried  women  workers  only,  58 
40  and  upwards — 

Preference  given  to  persons  over  40 — Wing  bequest  to  Cloth- 
workers'  Company,  12 
Society  for  granting  Annuities   to  the  Poor  Adult   Blind, 
58 
45  for  men,  40  for  married  women,  30  for  widows  and  maidens — 

Cordwainers  Company,  Came  bequest,  14 
50  and  upwards — 

Clothworkers'  Company,  Frances  West's  bequest  (7),  11 
Goldsmiths'  Company,  Cureton  bequest,  22 
Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
Irving's,  Miss,  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  Halifax,  105 
Merlott's,  Alderman  John,  Charity,  Bristol.  73 


136 

Age  Qualification — Requirements  of  Charities — continued. 
50  and  upwards — continued. 

Royal    Blind    Pension    Society — James    Templeton    Wood 
Memorial  Pensions,  53 
50   and   upwards,   with  preference  for  older  applicants — 

Clothworkers'  Company,  13 
55  and  upwards — Hetherington's  Charity,  30 

60  and  upwards — Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  Thomas  Pocock 
Memorial  Pensions,  53 

61  and  upwards — Painter  Stainers'  Company,  46 
Applicants  required  to  be  aged,  no  limit  specified — 

National  Institution  and  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female 
Blind  of  Ireland,  Leeson  Park,  Dublin,  123 
Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  Haverfordwest,  117 
Oldest  Pensioners,  preference  given  to — 

Clothworkers'  Company — Gregory's  Pension,  11 
Cordwainers'    Company,  Love  bequest   given   to  most  aged 
person  on  list  of  Came's  Pensioners,  15 
Pensioner  who  has  been  longest  on  list  of  Came's  Charity — Martha 

and  Ann  Woolnough's  gift  to  Cordwainers  Company,  16 
Persons  becoming  blind  after  attaining  maturity,  preference  given 
to   over  persons  born   blind — Clothworkers'    Company,   Wing 
bequest,  12 
Aisley,  S. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Ansted,  C. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 
Armitage  Memorial  Fund,  12 

Association  for  promoting  the  General  Welfare  of  the  Blind,  3 
Association  for  Relief  of  Indigent  Blind  and  Lending  Library,  Dublin, 


Baker,  J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Baldwyn-Childe  Pension,  54 

Barlow's,  Miss  Sarah,  Charity  for  Blind  Women,  Leicester,  85 
Bartram,  J. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 
Bath  Blind  School  Home — Closed,  Annuities  to  former  Inmates  paid 

by  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  4 
Bazeley,  W.   J. — Hon.   Sec.   to  the  Dowager  Lady  Robinson  Fund, 

Penzance,  68 
Belfast  Society  for  Home  Mission  Work  among  the  Blind,  121 
Beneficiaries  of  any  other  Charities  for  the  Blind,  Societies  disqualifying 
Goldsmiths'  Company,  Cureton  bequest,  22 
Institution  for  the  Relief  of  the  Indigent  Blind  of  the  Jewish 

persuasion,  41 
Royal  Blind  Asylum  and  School,  Edinburgh,  130 


137 

Bentley,  J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 
Berkshire  Societies,  65-7 
Betenson,  Mrs.  H. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Bevan,  F.  A. — Trustee  of  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society,  6 
Bird,  Susannah — Bequest  to  School  for  Indigent  Blind  (Miss  Susannah 

Bird's  Annuities),  55 
Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  96 
Blind   Female   Annuity   Society — Amalgamation   with    Royal    Blind 

Pension  Society,  5 
Blind  Governess  Annuity,  23 
Blind  Man's  Friend  or  Day's  Charity,  7 

Granger  bequest  (Drapers'  Company),  Appointments  to  be  made 

in  future  by  Trustees  of  Day's  Charity,  17 
Blind  Women-Workers'  Annuity  Fund,  13 

Blundell,  J.  H. — Trustee  of  Benjamin  Collett's  Charity,  Hemel  Hemp- 
stead, 77 
Bone,  A.   E.— Concerned  in  management  of  Portsmouth  Municipal 

Charities,  76 
Borradaile,  Miss  M. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors 

of  Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Bradford  Incorporated  Institution  for  the  Blind,  100 
Braithwaite,    Rev.    H.    M. — Addressee    for    John    Wintle's    Charity, 

Gloucester,  75 
Bristol — Alderman  John  Merlott's  Charity,  73 
Bristol — School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind,  Clifton,  74 
Brodie-Sewell  Pensions,  54 
Brovm,  T. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 
Bryden,  J.  Frew — Superintendent  of  Mission  to  the  Out-Door  Blind 

for  Glasgow  and  the  West  of  Scotland,  131 
Bumsted,  J.  C. — ^Treasurer  of  the  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  6 
Bume,  J.  R. — Secretary  to  Henshaw's  Blind  Asylum,  Manchester,  81 
Burton,  B. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 


Came,  John,    bequest  to  Cordwainers  Company  in  trust  for    blind 

persons  and  others,  14 
Canvassing  by  Candidates,  Prohibition — Sheffield   Institution  for  the 

Blind,  109 
Cardiff  Institute  for  the  Blind,  116 
Carmarthenshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  115 
Cass,  Miss  E. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Cavendish,  Lord  C. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  31 
Cecil,  Lord  E. — Founder  of  Cranborne  Memorial  Fund,  59 
Chandler,  G.  W. — Hon.  Sec.  to  Howard's  Charity,  34 
Charitable  Institutions,  Inmates  of,  Disqualified — Royal  Blind  Pension 

Society,  51 


138 

Charities  whose  Recipients  vary  from  year  to  year — 

Barlow's,  Miss  Sarah,  Charity  for  Blind  Women,  Leicester,  85 
Haigh's,  Harriet,  Charity,  106 

Irving's,  Miss,  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  Halifax,  104 
Wokingham  Municipal  Charities,  67 
Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind  (some),  113 
Charrington,  H. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Chigwell  United  Charities,  72 

Christian  Blind  Relief  Society.     See  National  Blind  Relief  Society 
Christ's  Hospital,  bequests  to,  in  trust  for  Aged  Blind,  30 
Clark,  Mrs.  Jane  Stobie,  Fund,  Edinburgh,  128 
Clarkson,  J. — Hon.  Sec.  to  the  Society  for  the  Home  Teaching  and 

Assistance  of  the  Halifax  Blind,  103 
Clergyman    or    District    Visitor,    Recommendation    required    from — 

Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  Haverfordwest,  117 
Clergymen's  Widows  (not  blind).  Societies  granting  pensions  to — 
.  Cordwainers  Company,  Came  bequest,  14 
Harley's,  Hon.  Frances,  Charity,  27 
Clifton,  Bristol,  School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind,  74 
Clifton's  Charity,  Oundle,  88 
Clothworkers'  Company — 

Bequests  held  in  Trust  for  the  Blind,  9 

Charities  for  the  Blind  of  which  the  Company  has  been  appointed 

Trustees,  12-3 
Secretarial  work  and  Office  Accommodation  provided  for  Day's 

Charity,  8 
Cockermouth — Hudson's  Charity,  69 
Collett's,  Benjamin,  Charity,  Hemel  Hempstead,  77 
Collinge,  E.  H, — Hon.  Corresponding  Secretary  to  Rossendale  Society 

for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind,  84 
Connection    with    Institution    entitling    to    preference — Birmingham 

Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  97 
Cooper,  J.  F. — Addressee  for  Henley-on-Thames  Municipal  Charities,  90 
Corbett,  Dr. — Bequest  for  the  Blind  of  City  and  County  of  Worcester,  99 
Cordwainers  Company,  bequests,  &c.,  to,  in  trust  for  the  Blind,  14 
Cornell,  George — Bequest  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust  for  blind 

persons,  11 
Cornw^l — Dowager  Lady  Robinson's  Fund,  68 
Comwallis  Street  Blind  Annuity  Fund,  Liverpool,  79 
Country  Asylum  Fund,  56 
Coventry,  T. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  31 
Cox,  E.  S. — Clerk  to  Trustees  of  Dorothy  Wilson's  Charity,  112 
Crabtree,  G. — Trustee  of  Miss  Irving's  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind, 

Halifax,  104 
Crace's,  J.  Gregory,  Charity,  46 
Cranborne,   late   Vise. — Joint   Founder  of    the   Society   for  granting 

Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  57 
Cranborne  Memorial  Fund,  59 
Cumberland — Hudson's  Charity,  Cockermouth,  69 
Cureton,  H.  O. — Bequest  to  Goldsmiths'  Company  in  trust  for  blind 

persons,  21 


139 

D 

Day,  Charles,  Founder  of  Day's  Charity,  7 

Day's  Charity.     See  Blind  Man's  Friend 

Dennis,  A.  W. — Secretary  to  Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  23 

Denward's,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Charity  to  the  Blind  of  Kent,  78 

Devonshire  Societies,  70-1 

Dinham  Fund,  70 

Dover,  Mrs.  M. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Drapers'  Company,  bequest  to,  in  trust  for  blind  persons,  17 

Granger's  bequest.  Appointments  in  future  to  be  made  by  Trustees 
of  Day's  Charity,  17 
Drury  Annuity  for  a  Blind  Governess,  24 
Dublin — 

Association  for  Relief  of  Indigent  Blind  and  Lending  Library,  122 
National  Institution  and.  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind, 

Leeson  Park,  123 
St.  Joseph's  Asylum  and  School  for  Male  Blind,  Drumcondra,  124 
Dundee — 

Funds    giving  aid  to  the  Blind  though  not  specially  for  blind 

persons,  127  note 
Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind,  127  note 
Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  127 
Dupree,  Miss  A. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 
Christ's  Hospital,  33 


E 

Earle,  W.  B. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Edinburgh  and  South-East  of  Scotland  Society  for  teaching  the  Blind 

to  read,  129 
Edmonds,  J.  T. — Hon.  Sec.  and  Solicitor  to  South  London  Association 

for  assisting  the  Blind,  6i 
Election  or  Nomination — Rules,  Conditions  as  to  Subscriptions,  &c. — 
Association  for  Relief  of  Indigent  Blind   and  Lending  Library, 

Dublin,  122 
Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
Indigent  Blind  Visiting  Society,  39 
National  Blind  Relief  Society,  43 
Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  50,  51,  52 
Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  58 
South  London  Association  for  assisting  the  Blind,  61 
Elizabeth  Annuity  for  a  Blind  Governess,  24 

Ellen,  Frederic — Trustee  of  George  Phillips'  Charity,  Northampton,  86 
Emery,  Miss — Pensions  given  through  Indigent  Blind  Visiting  Society, 

40 
Englefield,  F.  W. — Clerk  to  Painter  Stalners'  Company,  45 
Essex — Chigwell  United  Charities,  72 

Evans,  Miss  M. — Secretary  to  Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society, 
Haverfordwest,  117 


140 

Evans,  P.  M.— 

Clothworkers'  Company,  Clerk  to,  9 

Day's  Charity,  Secretary  to,  7 
Exeter — West  of  England  Institution  for  the  Instruction  and  Employ- 
ment of  the  Blind,  70 


Farmer,  Rachael — Bequest  to  Goldsmith's  Company  in  trust  for  blind 

persons,  21 
Fawcett,  Henry,  Memorial  Scholarship  Fund,  13 
Fenton's,  Alice,  Charity — Staffordshire,  93 
Fisher,  Mrs. — Debt  due  to  Mary  Fountain,  bequest  by  M.  Fountain 

now  forming  part  of  Chigwell  United  Charities,  72 
Fossitt,    H.    N. — Secretary   to   National    Institution    and    Molyneux 

Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind  of  Ireland,  Leeson  Park,  Dublin, 

123 
Fountain,    Mary — Bequest    now    forming    part    of    Chigwell    United 

Charities,  72 
Franks,  R.  L. — Addressee  for  Hetherington's  Charity,  30 
Frean,  G.  M. — Managing  Trustee  of  Hazelwood  Trust,  71 
Friends   undertaking  to  care  for  blind  persons,  Annuities  to  be  paid 

to — Hon.  Francis  Harley's  Charity,  26 
Fuller's  Charity,  Sussex,  95 
Fyfe,  Ireland  and  Co.,  Messrs. — Agents  for  the  Trustees  of  the  Mrs.  Jane 

Stobie  Clark  Fund,  Edinburgh,  128 


Galpin,  H. — Addressee  for  Oxford  Municipal  Charities,  91 

Gait,    Mr.    J. — Inspector   for   Webster   and   Davidson   Mortification, 

Dundee,  127 
Gardner's  Trust  for  the  Blind,  18 

Rashdale's  Joanna,  Charity,  Administration  of,  49 
Gibson,  Miss  M. — Patron  of  Hannah  Ochiltree  Pension,  53 
Gilbert,  Miss — Foundress  of    Association  for  promoting  the  General 

Welfare  of  the  Blind,  3 
Glamorganshire — Cardiff  Institute  for  the  Blind,  116 
Glasgow  and  the  West  of  Scotland,   Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind, 

131 
Gloucester — John  Wintle's  Charity,  75 
Gloucestershire  Charities,  73-5 
Godson,  A.  E.  and  E.  P. — Patrons  of  Elizabeth  Annuity  for  a  Blind 

Governess,  24 
Goldsmiths'  Company,  Bequests,  &c.,  to,  in  Trust  for  Blind  persons,  21 
Gore-Lloyd,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.,  Memorial  Pensions,  53 
Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  23 
Graham,  J. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 


141 

GraJnger,  Mrs.  M. — Bequest  to  Painters'  Company  in  trust  for  the 

Blind,  46 
Granger,  Jonathan. — Bequest  to  Drapers'  Company  in  trust  for  blind 

persons,  17 
Gray,  A. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Gregory,  Edward — Gift  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust  for  Aged 

Blind  Pensioners  of  the  Company,  11 

H 

Haigh's,  Harriet,  Charity,  Armitage  Bridge,  near  Huddersfield,  106 
Halifax — 

Irving's,  Miss,  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  104 
Society  for  Home  Teaching  and  Assistance  of  the  Halifax  Blind, 
103 
Halloway,  Miss,  Memorial  Fund,  Bradford,  102 
Hampshire — Portsmouth  Municipal  Charities,  76 
Hardy,   Rev.  C.   F. — Superintendent  of  School  of  Industry  for  the 

Blind,  Bristol,  74 
Harley's,  Hon.  Frances,  Charity  for  Poor  Blind  persons,  26 
Harris,   Dr.   G. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Harrison,  C.  &  S.,    &   Co. — Addressees   for   Hon.    Frances   Harley's 

Charity,  26 
Harrison,  John — 

Bequest  to  Charities  for  the  Blind  of  Bradford,  100 

Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's  Hospital, 

33 
Harrison,  Joseph — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Hastings  and  St.  Leonards,  Fund  for  Blind  of,  13 
Haverfordwest — Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  117 
Hayes,  J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Haynes'  Charity,  Oxford,  91 
Hazel  wood  Trust,  71 

Hemel  Hempstead — Benjamin  Collett's  Charity,  77 
Henley-on-Thames  Municipal  Charities,  90 
Henshaw's  Blind  Asylum,  Manchester,  81 
Hepburn-Starey,   Mrs. — Hon.    Sec.    to  the  Somers  Town  Blind  Aid 

Society,  60 
Hereford,  Archdeacons  of — Patrons  of  Baldwyn-Childe  Pension,  54 
Hereford,  Mrs.  M. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Hertfordshire — Benjamin  Collett's  Charity,  Hemel  Hempstead,  77 
Hetherington's,  Rev.  William,  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  30 
Hickson  Annuity  for  a  Blind  Governess,  23 
Hill,  Rev.  St.  Clare- 
School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  London  and  Leatherhead,  Principal 

of,  55 
Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  Hon.  Sec. 

to,l57 


142 

Hill,  T.  H.,  and  the  Misses  HUl — Founders  of  the  Hickson  Annuity,  23 
Hirst,  A. — Originator  of  Whitby  Trust  for  the  Blind,  no 
Holden,  James,  Trust,  81 
Home  Teaching  Society  of  Newcastle — 

Patron  of  Hannah  Ochiltree  Pension  on  death  of  Miss  Matilda 
Gibson,  53 

Pensions  vested  in,  53 
Howard's  Charity  for  the  Blind,  St.  Marylebone,  34 
Hudson's  Charity,  Cockermouth,  69 
Humston's  Charity  for  the  Blind,  Aldgate,  36 

Hyams,  H.  H. — Secretary  to  Institution  for  the  Relief  of  the  Indigent 
Blind  of  the  Jewish  persuasion,  41 


Imperial  Forces,  Service  in,  or  relationship  with  persons  who  had 
served  in — Qualification  required  by  Royal  Blind  Pension 
Society,  Queen  Victoria  Memorial  Pensions,  52 

Income  Disqualifications — Limit  of  Income  beyond  which  applicants 
are  disqualified — 
;^io — Painter  Stainers'  Company,  47 

;^20— 

Clothworkers'  Company  except  under  Wing  bequest,  13 

Hetherington's  Charity,  30 

Merlott's  Charity,  73 

Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  Dundee,  127 
;^20  if  single,  ;^30  if  married — National  Blind  Relief  Society,  44 
^20  if  single,  ;^30  if  married  or  widowed  with  children  dependent — 

Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  50 
£^^ — Goldsmiths'  Company,  Cureton  bequest,  22 
^30  from  secured  sources,  ^50  from  employment.  Total  of  {po — 

Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
/40 — Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  25 
^50 — Clothworkers'  Company,  Wing  bequest,  12  , 

Indigent  Blind  Visiting  Society,  38 

Institution  for  the  Relief  of  the  Indigent  Blind  of  the  Jewish  persuasion, 

Intermarriage  of  Blind  Persons,  Charities  expressly  mentioning  as  a 
Disqualification — 
Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  97 
Gardner's  Trust — Intermarriage  deprecated,  19 
Indigent  Blind  Visiting  Society,  39 

Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  except 
by  unanimous  vote  of  Committee,  58 
Ipswich  and  Suffolk  Institution  for  providing  Relief  and  Additional 

Comfort  to  the  Blind,  94 
Ireland,  Charities  in,  121 
Irving's,  Miss,  Charity  for  the  Aged  Blind,  Halifax,  104 


Jameson,  Mrs. — Foundress  of  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society,  5 
Jamieson  Fund,  129 


143 

Jeffrey,  D.  A.  R.— Secretary  to  the  Cardiff  Institute  for  the  Blind,  ii6 
Johnson,  Edmund  Charles — 

Bequest  to  School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  56 
Joint  Founder  of  Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult 
Blind,  57 
Johnstone  and  Hospital  Fund,  Dundee,  127  note 
Jones,  J.  E. — Treasurer  and  Secretary  of  York  Emanuel,  m 
Jones,  Mrs.   E. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Joy,  E. — Addressee  for  Alice  Fenton's  Charity,  93 
Joyce,  J.  D. — Manager  of  St.  Joseph's  Asylum  and  School  for  Male 
Blind,  Drumcondra,  Dublin,  124 


Kay-Shuttleworth,  Lady — Joint  Foundress  of  Blind  Governess  Annuity, 

23 
Kempe's,  Rev.  Edward,  Trust  Funds,  74 
Kent — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denward's  Charity,  78 
Kenton,  B. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Kindred  of  Benefactors,  Preference  given  to — Clothworkers'  Company, 

John  and  Frances  West's  bequests,  9,  10 
Knill,  W.  C. — Secretary  to  West  of  England  Institution  for  Instruction 

£md  Employment  of  the  Blind,  70 


Laing,  David,  Annuity  for  a  Blind  Governess,  23 

Lancashire  Charities,  79-84 

Laxton's,  Sir  W.,  Hospital,  Inmates  of — Recipients  of  Clifton's  Charity 

in  event  of  there  being  no  qualified  blind  persons,  88 
Leeds — United  Institution  for  the  Blind  and  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  108 
Leicestershire — Miss  Sarah  Barlow's  Charity,  85 
Lightermen  and  Watermen  and  their  Dependents,  preference  given  to — 

Humston's  Charity,  36 
Liverpool  Workshops  and  Home  Teaching  Society  for  Outdoor  Blind,  79 
Lloyd,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Gore,  Memorial  Pensions,  53 
Locality  Qualification — Charities  giving  preference  according  to  Place 
of  Residence  or  Birth — 
Baldwyn-Childe  Pension,  54 
Barlow's,  Miss  Sarah,  Charity,  85 
Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  97 
Bradford  Incorporated  Institution  for  the  Blind,  loi 
Carmarthenshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  115 
ChlgweU  United  Charities,  72 
Clifton's  Charity,  88 
Clothworkers'  Company — 
Cornell  bequest,  12 

West's,  John  and  Frances,  bequests,  9,  10 
Collett's,  Benjamin,  Charity,  77 


144 

Locality  Qualification,  etc. — continued. 

Cordwainers  Company,  Came  bequest,  14 

Denward's,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Charity,  78 

Edinburgh    and    South    East    of    Scotland    Society — Jamieson 
Fund,  129 

Edinburgh  Royal  Blind  Asylum  and  School,  130 

Fenton's,  Alice,  Charity,  93 

Fuller's  Charity,  95 

Goldsmiths'  Company,  22 
Cureton  bequest,  22 

Haigh's,  Harriet,  Charity,  106 

Hazelwood  Trust,  71 

Henley-on-Thames  Municipal  Charities,  90 

Henshaw's  Blind  Asylum — James  Holden  Trust,  81 

Hetherlngton's  Charity,  30 

Howard's  Charity,  34 

Humston's  Charity,  36 

Institution  for  the  Relief  of  the  Indigent  Blind  of  the  Jewish 
persuasion,  41 

Ipswich  and  Suffolk  Institution  for  providing  Relief  and  Additional 
Comfort  to  the  Blind,  94 

Irving's,  Miss,  Charity,  105 

Lowrie  Memorial  Pensions,  53 

Merlott's  Charity,  73 

Moore's,  G.,  Annuities,  33 

Ochiltree,  Hannah,  Pension,  53 

Oxford  Municipal  Charities,  92 

Painter  Stainers'  Company,  46 

Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  117 

Phillips',  George,  Charity,  86 

Portsmouth  Municipal  Charities,  76 

Reading  Blind  Aid  Society,  65 

Robinson's,  Dowager  Lady,  Fund,  68 

Sheffield  Institution  for  the  Blind,  109 

Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  127 

Whitby  Trust,  no 

Wilson's,  Dorothy,  Charity,  112 

Wingrove  Pension,  54 

Wintle's,  John,  Charity,  75 

Wokingham  Municipal  Charities,  67 

Worcester  Municipal  Charities,  99 
Locke,  Dr. — Hon.  Sec.  to  Ipswich  and  Suffolk  Institution  for  providing 

Relief  and  Additional  Comfort  to  the  Blind,  94 
London  Charities,  3 

Lord,  Miss  E.  R. — Bequest  to  Gardner's  Trust,  20 
Love,  Elizabeth — Bequests  in  trust  for  blind  persons — 

Clothworkers'  Company,  12 

Cordwainers  Company,  15 
Love,    Mrs.    E. — Donor   of   Annuity   administered   by   Governors   of 

Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Lowrie,  Bathia — Foundress  and  Patroness  of  William  Lowrie  Memorial 

Pension,  53 
Lowrie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James,  Memorial  Pension,  53 


145 

Lowrie,  Miss — Foundress  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Lowrie  Memorial 

Pension,  53 
Lowrie,  William,  Memorial  Pension,  53 
Lythall,  Mrs.,  Memorial  Fund,  Bradford,  102 


M'Kerrell  Brown,  J.  and  H.,  and  Gray,  C.A. — Secretaries  to  Edinburgh 
and  South-East  of  Scotland  Society  for  teaching  the  Blind  to 
read,  129 
Madden,  Rev.  G.  C.  B.— Trustee  of  Harriet  Haigh's  Charity,  106 
Maddocks,   S. — Superintendent  of  the  Sheffield   Institution   for  the 

Blind,  109 
Manchester — Henshaw's  Blind  Asylum,  8i 
Mander,  C.  H.  W. — Clerk  to  the  Cordwainers  Company,  14 
Markham,  Mrs.  Spencer,  Fund  raised  by,  for  Yorkshire  School,  113 
Marriage  Disqualification — 

Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
See  also  Women — Widows  and  Spinsters 
Marriage  of  Blind  persons.     See  Intermarriage 
Matthews,  Rev.  C.  H.  S.— Trustee  of  Fuller's  Charity  to  the  Blind  of 

Sussex,  95 
Mauduitt,   W. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Mauvillain,  Mrs.  S. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Mawdesley,  T.  S.— Addressee  for  Clifton's  Charity,  Oundle,  88 
May,  J. — Clerk  to  Trustees  of  Wokingham  Municipal  Charities,  67 
Medical  Practitioners,  Widows  and  Spinster  Daughters  of,  preference 

given  to — Brodie-Sewell  Pensions,  54 
Meeson,  J.  B. — Superintendent,  Blind  Department  of  United  Institution 

for  the  Blind  and  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Leeds,  108 
Membership  of  Company,  Preference  for — 
Clothworkers'  Company — 
Cornell  Bequest,  12 
Gregory's  Pension,  11 
Goldsmiths'  Company,  22 
Cureton  Bequest,  22 
Men  only,  Charities  for — 

Painter  Stainers'  Company — Grainger  Bequest,  46 
St.   Joseph's  Asylum  and  School  for  Male  Blind,  Drumcondra, 
Dublin,  124 
Merlott,  Mrs.  Elizabeth — Gift  to  Alderman  John  Merlott's  Charity,  73 
Merlott's,  Alderman  John,  Charity,  Bristol,  73 
Mickman,  Mrs.  E. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospitzil,  32 
Ministers  of  all  Denominations  and  their  Wives,  Widows,  and  Children 
being   Blind   or  nearly   Blind   or   Idiotic,   Charity  for — York 
Emanuel,  iii 
Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind  for  Glasgow  and  the  West  of  Scotland, 
131 


146 

Moore,  G. — Donor  ot  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  33 
Morgan,    Mrs.    Naomi — ^Foundress   of  Carmarthensliire   Blind   Relief 

Society,  115  / 

Morrison,  Rev.  Dr. — Distributor  of  Howard's  Charity,  34 
Mullins,  H.  E. — Secretary  to  Association  for  promoting  the  General 

Welfare  of  the  Blind,  3 


National  Blind  Relief  Society,  43 

National  Institution  and  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind  of 

Ireland,  Leeson  Park,  Dublin,  123 
Nationality  Qualification — Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
Neiman,  J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Newman,  Rev.  W.  A. — Trustee  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denward's  Charity,  78 
Newnam,  Thomas — Bequest  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust  for 

poor  Blind  persons,  11 
Newton,  A. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Newton,   F.   W. — Addressee  for  Alderman   John  Merlott's  Charity, 

Bristol,  73 
Normanby,  Marquis  and  Marchioness  of,  Pensions  given  by,  in  con- 
nexion with  Whitby  Trust,  no 
Northampton — George  Phillips'  Charity,  86 
Northamptonshire  Charities,  86-g 
Norwood,  ^A.  B. — Superintendent  of  Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind, 

113 
Notice,  pensions  terminable  by  six  months'  notice — Gardner's  Trust 

for  the  Blind,  19 


Ochiltree,  Hannah,  Pension,  53 
Oundle— Clifton's  Charity,  88 
Oxford  Municipal  Charities,  91 
Oxfordshire  Charities,  90-2 


Paget,  J.— Clerk  to  Trustees  of  Chigwell  United  Charities,  72 

Pain,  T. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Painter    Stainers'   Company,   Bequests   to,    &c.,   in   trust  for   blind 

persons,  45 
Parker,  Rev.  W.  H. — Addressee  for  Hudson's  Charity,  69 
Peek,  James — Founder  of  the  Hazel  wood  Trust,  71 
Pembrokeshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  Haverfordwest,  117 


147 

Penzance — Dowager  Lady  Robinson's  Fund  for  the  Blind,  68 
Period  of  Blindness  Qualification — 
One  Year — 

Goldsmiths'  Company,  Cureton  Bequest,  22 
Hetherlngton's  Charity,  30 
Three  Years — 

Clothworkers*  Company,  14 
Merlott's  Charity,  73 
Painter  Stainers'  Company,  46 
Perrin,  W. — Hon.  Sec.  to  the  Association  for  Relief  of  the  Indigent 

Blind  and  Lending  Library,  Dublin,  122 
Petrle,  Mrs.  Margaret,  or  Morton  Fund  for  Aged  and  Indigent  persons  of 

Dundee,  127  note 
Phillips',  George,  Charity,  Northampton,  86 
Pieschell,  C. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Pirn,  Mrs.   R.  B. — Foundress  of  Belfast  Society  for  Home  Mission 

Work  among  the  Blind,  121 
Pocock,  Thomas,  Memorial  Pensions,  53 
Poor  Law  Relief  Disqualification — Expressly  mentioned — 
Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  97 
Blhid  Man's  Friend  or  Day's  Charity,  8 
Clothworkers'  Company,  13 
Cordwainers  Company,  Came  Bequest,  14 
Drapers'  Company,  Granger  Bequest,  17 
Gardner's  Trust,  19 

Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  25 
Hetherlngton's  Charity,  31 
Irving's,  Miss,  Charity,  105 
Merlott's  Charity,  73 
Oxford  Municipal  Charities,  92 
Painter  Stainers'  Company,  47 
PhilUps',  George,  Charity,  87 

Rossendale  Society  for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind,  84 
Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  51 
School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind,  Clifton,  Bristol,  74 
Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  58 
Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  127 
Wokingham  Municipal  Charities,  67 
Portsmouth  Municipal  Charities,  76 
Precious,    R. — Donor    of    Annuities    administered    by   Governors   of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Prideaux,  Sir  W.— Clerk  to  Goldsmiths'  Company,  21 
Priestley,  M. — Manager  and  Secretary  to  the  Bradford  Incorporated 

Institution  for  the  Blind,  100 
Pritchard,  T.  H. — Clerk  to  Painter  Stainers'  Company,  45 
Provincial  Societies,  65 
Pulleln-Thompson,  Rev.  J. — Hon.  Secretary  to  National  Blind  Relief 

Society,  43 
Pupil  of  Institution,  Applicant  required  to  be — 

Association  for  promoting  General  Welfare  of  the  Blind,  3 
School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  56 
Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind,  113 


148 


Queen  Victoria  Memorial  Pensions,  52 
Queen  Victoria  Pension  Fund,  Bradford,  loi 


R 

Randell,  C. — Bequest  to  School  for  the  Indigent  Blind  (Charles  Randell 

Annuity  Fund),  56 
Rashdale's,  Joanna,  Charity  for  Blind  Women,  49 
Reading  Blind  Aid  Society,  65 
Religious  Qualifications  required — 

Harley's,  Hon.  Frances,  Charity,  27 

National  Institution  and  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind 
of  Ireland,  Leeson  Park,  Dublin,  123 
Reports  on  Pensioners  invited  by  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  52 
Reynolds,  R. — Gifts  to  Alderman  John  Merlott's  Charity,  Bristol,  73 
Richardson,  Miss  C. — Foundress  of  Wingrove  Pension,  53 
Robinson,  Harriett  M.  R. — Bequest  in  trust  for  the  Blind  of  Penzance, 

&c.  (Dowager  Lady  Robinson's  Fund),  68 
Rochdale  and  District  Society  for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind,  83 
Rossendale  Society  for  Visiting  and  Instructing  the  Blind,  84 
Royal  Blind  Asylum  and  School,  Edinburgh,  130 
Royal  Blind  Pension  Society  of  the  United  Kingdom,  50 

Bath  Blind  School  Home,  Funds  of,  taken  over,  4 

Blind  Female  Annuity  Society,  Amalgamation  with,  6 

Foundation  and  other  special  pensions,  52-4 


S 

St.  Joseph's  Asylum  and  School  for  Male  Blind,  Drumcondra,  Dublin, 

124 
Scale,  George  J. — Bequest  to  Mayor  and  Corporation  of  Portsmouth 

in  trust  for  blind  persons,  76 
School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  London  and  Leatherhead,  Surrey,  55 
Ofi&ce  accommodation  provided  for  Society  for  granting  annuities 

to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  59 
School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind,  Bristol,  74 
Scotland,  Charities  in,  127 

Sewell,  Miss  Annie  Graham — Foundress  of  Brodie-Sewell  Pensions,  54 
Shand  Memorial  Fund,  Cardiff,  116 
Shank,  Mrs.  Jane — Bequest  to  Painter  Stainers'  Company  in  trust  for 

the  Blind,  45 
Shefi&eld  Institution  for  the  Blind,  109 
Sheldon,  R. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of  Christ's 

Hospital,  32 
Smith,  Mrs.  Dorothy — Bequest  for  blind  persons,  45 
Smith,    Mrs.   M. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 


149 

Social  Status  Qualification — Charities  requiring  Applicants  to  have 
been  in  '  a  better  station  of  life  ' — 

Clothworkers'  Company — Wing  Bequest,  12 

Hetherington's  Chaxity,  31 
Society  for  granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  57 
Society  for  Home  Teaching  and  Assistance  of  the  Halifax  Blind,  103 
Somers  Town  Blind  Aid  Society,  60 
Sopper,  late  W.,  pensions  founded  in  memory  of,  61 
South  London  Association  for  assisting  the  Blind,  61 
Spinsters.    See  Women — Widows  and  Spinsters 
Staffordshire — Alice  Fenton's  Charity,  93 
Stalnsby,  Henry,  Pension  Fund,  96 
Stock,  John — Bequest  to  Painter  Stainers'  Company  In  trust  for  blind 

persons,  &c.,  45 
Stott,  George — Manager  of  Royal  Blind  Asylum  and  School,  Edinburgh, 

130 
Stredwlck,  Miss  S. — Legacy  to  the  Blind  Governess  Annuity,  23 
Street  Musicians,  Charities  expressly  mentioning  as  disqualified — 

Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  98 

Gardner's  Trust,  19 

National  Blind  Relief  Society,  44 

Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  51 

Sheffield  Institution,  109 

Society  for  Granting  Annuities  to  the  Poor  Adult  Blind,  58 
Strode,  WUliam  and  Elizabeth — Donors  of  Annuities  administered  by 

Governors  of  Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Suffolk — Ipswich  and  Suffolk  Institution  for  providing  Relief  and 

Additional  Comfort  to  the  Blind,  94 
Sussex — Fuller's  Charity,  95 
Syddall,  Miss  Ann  Rhodes,  Bequest  to  Painters'  Company  in  trust  for 

blind  persons,  46 
S5rmers',  Miss,  Fund  for  Indigent  Females,  Dundee,  127  note 


Taylor,  Miss  M.  A. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Terry,  W.  E. — Secretary  to  Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  50 
Thackeray,   J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Chjist's  Hospital,  33 
Thornton,    R. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered   by   Governors   of 

Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Thwaytes,  William — Bequest  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust  for 

poor  blind  persons,  11 
Tufnell,  Lady  Anne — Joint  Foundress  of  the  Blind  Governess  Annuity, 

23 
Tunnard,   W. — Donor   of   Annuities   administered   by   Governors   of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Turner,  E. — Addressee  for  Humston's  Charity,  36 
Turner,  Mrs.  Amy — Bequest  for  relief  of  the  Blind  in  Henley-on-Thames, 

90 


150 
u 

United  Institution  for  the  Blind  and  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Leeds,  108 

V 

Vaughan,  Evan — Legacy  to  Carmarthenshire  Blind  Relief  Society,  115 


W 

Waddington,  Sidney — Trustee  of  Mrs.  Harriet  Woods,  100 

Walford,  H.  E. — Hon.  Sec,  Treasurer  and  Founder  of  the  Reading 

Blind  Aid  Society,  65 
Waller,  Mrs.   J. — Donor  of  Annuity  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Ward,  F.  P. — Trustee  of  Blind  Female  Annuity  Society,  6 
Warters,  T.— Hon.  Sec.  to  Whitley  Trust  for  the  Blind,  no 
Warwickshire — Birmingham  Royal  Institution  for  the  Blind,  96 
Watkins,  H.  G. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  33 
Waud,  Ada,  Memorial  Fund,  loi 

Waud,  P.  R. — Founder  of  Ada  Waud  Memorial  Fund,  loi 
Webster  and  Davidson  Mortification,  Dundee,  127 
West,    John   and   Frances — Bequests  to   Clothworkers'   Company   in 

trust  for  poor  blind  persons,  9-1 1 
West  of  England  Institution  for  the  Instruction  and  Employment  of 

the  Blind,  70 
Whitby  Trust  for  the  Blind,  no 
Whitchurch,  J. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Widows  and  Spinsters.    See  Women 

Williams,  Jonathan — Bequest  to  School  for  the  Indigent  Blind,  55 
Williams,  Mrs.  E.  R. — Hon.  Treasurer  and  Secretary  of  Carmarthen- 
shire Blind  Relief  Society,  115 
Williams,  Mrs.  S. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Wilshire,  Baldwin  and  Company,  Messrs. — Clerks  to  Trustee  for  Miss 

Sarah  Barlow's  Charity,  85 
Wilson,  Henry  J.,  Secretary — 

Gardner's  Trust  for  the  Blind,  18 
Rashdale's  Charity,  49 
Wilson's,  Dorothy,  Charity,  York,  112 
Winchester,  C. — Donor  of  Annuities  administered  by  Governors  of 

Christ's  Hospital,  32 
Wing,  Thomas  William — Bequest  to  Clothworkers'  Company  in  trust 

for  blind  persons,  12 
Wingrove  Pension,  53 
Win  tie's,  John,  Charity,  Gloucester,  75 
Wokingham  Municipal  Charities,  67 


15X 

Women  only,  Charities  for — 

Barlow's,  Miss  Sarah,  Charity,  85 

Bath  Blind  School  Trust,  4 

Blind  Female  Annuity  Society,  5 

Chigwell  United  Charities,  72 

Clark,  Mrs.  Jane  Stobie,  Fund,  128 

Clothworkers*  Company,  Blind  Women  Workers' Annuity  Fund,  13 

Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  23 

Mission  to  the  Outdoor  Blind  for  Glasgow  and  the  West  of  Scotland 

— Ladies  Auxiliary,  132 
National  Institution  and  Molyneux  Asylum  for  the  Female  Blind, 

Leeson  Park,  Dublin,  123 
Painter  Stainers'  Company,  Shank  Bequest,  45 
Rashdale's,  Joanna,  Charity,  49 
Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  Wingrove  Pension,  54 
Symers',  Miss,  Fund,  127  note 
Widows  or  Spinsters  only,  Societies  for  relief  of — 
Governesses'  Benevolent  Institution,  24 
Medical  Practitioners,    Preference    to  widows  and  spinster 
daughters  of — Royal  Blind  Pension  Society,  Brodie-Sewell 
Pensions,  54 
School  of  Industry  for  the  Blind,  Bristol,  74 
Society  for  granting  Annuities  to   the  Poor   Adult   Blind, 
six  pensions  for  unmarried  women  workers,  58 
Wood,  James  Templeton,  Memorial  Pensions,  53 
Wood,  Mrs.  J.  T. — Foundress  of  the  James  Templeton  Wood  Memorial 

Pensions,  53 
Woods,  Mrs.  Harriet — Bequest  to  Charities  for  the  Blind,  Bradford,  100 
Woodington's  Charity,  Oxford,  91 
Woolnough,  Martha  and  Ann — Gift  to  Cordwainers'  Company  in  trust 

for  blind  persons,  16 
Worcestershire — Worcester  Municipal  Charities,  99 
Wray,  Mrs. — Bequest  for  Relief  of  the  Blind  in  Whitby,  no 


Yamold,  Sarah — Bequest  for  Blind  of  Hurst  or  Ruscombe,  67 
Yeates,  Mrs.  A. — Bequest  to  Painters'  Company,  in  trust  for  blind 

persons,  46 
York — Dorothy  Wilson's  Charity,  112 
York  Emanuel,  in 
Yorkshire  Charities,  101-14 
Yorkshire  School  for  the  Blind,  113 


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